robuilt
05-09-2016, 09:53 PM
Let me bring you up to speed.
A few months ago my buddies and I replaced the flexplate on my xj. About 6 weeks later, I'm driving to a buddy's house and I hear a crazy racket and smoke coming out the back. Turns out several tranny mounting bolts came loose/out and the tranny was clanking all over the place. We retightened, replaced the missing bolts. A had a tiny leak and was fine leaving it as is. I was told it was most likely the transmission pump front seal. $10 later I had a replacement seal in my hand and a good buddy there to help me drop the tranny to swap it out.
So when we dropped the tranny, the seal looked good. No obvious signs of damage or anything but replaced it anyway. While extracting the old seal, I ended up pulling a sleeve that was behind the pump seal that was on the shaft. We both said oops and proceeded to reinstall it. We were both unsure of exactly how it should have sat on the shaft but we felt good about our reinstall. We buttoned up the transmission and called it good.
Day light comes the following day and I test out the transmission. Boom, it started pouring out tranny fluid after moving about 30 feet.
I haven't messed with it yet.
I'm wondering what the issue could be.
I spoke with my buddy who helped me when I went to his out to return his tranny jack. I snapped pics of his spare transmission to show the seal and sleeve that came out.
We did not think to replace the seal on the torque converter (found out that I should have replaced it too while researching a resolution).
I think it's A) an issue with the "sleeve" that I ended up pulling out when I pulled the seal or B) torque converter seal but doubt it since the tranny was barely leaking anything before the front pump seal.
Any leads or follow up questions that you can think of that would help me figure this out?
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160510/02e7f1cd221e6d53ed63a8cd66582ea7.jpg
Pic of the spare tranny showing a bad seal.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160510/d9b6032f46e3e0852eb72d38b055b556.jpg
Pic of the face of the seal that ended up coming out when I pulled the seal.
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A few months ago my buddies and I replaced the flexplate on my xj. About 6 weeks later, I'm driving to a buddy's house and I hear a crazy racket and smoke coming out the back. Turns out several tranny mounting bolts came loose/out and the tranny was clanking all over the place. We retightened, replaced the missing bolts. A had a tiny leak and was fine leaving it as is. I was told it was most likely the transmission pump front seal. $10 later I had a replacement seal in my hand and a good buddy there to help me drop the tranny to swap it out.
So when we dropped the tranny, the seal looked good. No obvious signs of damage or anything but replaced it anyway. While extracting the old seal, I ended up pulling a sleeve that was behind the pump seal that was on the shaft. We both said oops and proceeded to reinstall it. We were both unsure of exactly how it should have sat on the shaft but we felt good about our reinstall. We buttoned up the transmission and called it good.
Day light comes the following day and I test out the transmission. Boom, it started pouring out tranny fluid after moving about 30 feet.
I haven't messed with it yet.
I'm wondering what the issue could be.
I spoke with my buddy who helped me when I went to his out to return his tranny jack. I snapped pics of his spare transmission to show the seal and sleeve that came out.
We did not think to replace the seal on the torque converter (found out that I should have replaced it too while researching a resolution).
I think it's A) an issue with the "sleeve" that I ended up pulling out when I pulled the seal or B) torque converter seal but doubt it since the tranny was barely leaking anything before the front pump seal.
Any leads or follow up questions that you can think of that would help me figure this out?
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160510/02e7f1cd221e6d53ed63a8cd66582ea7.jpg
Pic of the spare tranny showing a bad seal.
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160510/d9b6032f46e3e0852eb72d38b055b556.jpg
Pic of the face of the seal that ended up coming out when I pulled the seal.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk