T-5 leak

[paintslinga2010]

It was probably not a good idea for me to mess with my car four days before i need to drive i to college but whats done is done. I took my car over to a friend of my dads because he was a mechanic for many years and is supposed to know his stuff. I dont know wtf was wrong with him, if he was drunk or what but he was pissing me off. First i go out and start to change my tranny fluid on my own. I go to take the shifter off and he comes out and tells me we will put it in through the bottom. I told him i did not want to mess with that torx bolt but he insisted. He breaks off two t bits then goes at it with one that is too small. I didnt knwo wtf he was doing until it was too late. Long stor short he couldnt get the bolt out and ended up tightening it back up and i put the snchromesh in through the top like i planned. This was last night, flash forward to today. I have tranny fluid all over under my car. It doesnt look to be coming from that bolt but its hard to tell because it is everywhere. I re-did the shifter with more silicone and a better prep job but i dont know if that is it. Is it possible to put in too much fluid and it leak out somewhere? I put just under three and a half quarts. Anything helps...

 

[Slykin]

Well, T-5's take about 2.8 quarts... I don't know how you'd have it leaking for any reason unless you took the whole tranny apart. Putting .7 quarts extra could've put the fluid under more pressure though. Just throwing things out there. Oh, and I don't know about your T-5, but my T-5 just has a half inch drive on the drain bolts. I just used a half inch breaker bar in there and it came right out. If I were you i'd pull the top drain plug out, make sure it's not overfilled, and then make sure you get it good and tight.

 

[ryclef331]

That torx bolt is not the drain. As stated above...its a plug that uses a 3/8" drive extension. There is a fill and a drain.

 

[paintslinga2010]

I never said it was the drain. I got that the drain was the square hole on the bottom. Thats how I drained the old fluid to put the new in from the top. He back the top fill hole plug about half way out then tightened it back because he couldnt get it out.

 

[modo]

I never said it was the drain. I got that the drain was the square hole on the bottom. Thats how I drained the old fluid to put the new in from the top. He back the top fill hole plug about half way out then tightened it back because he couldnt get it out.

the fill plug isn't a torx bit. i think thats what he was trying to say.

 

[paintslinga2010]

it isnt!? then wtf was he messing with?

 

[paintslinga2010]

Wow, im never letting that dude touch my car again. Hopefully nothing is too F'ed up now. No where have i seen that torx bolt being the fill plug. I knew it wasnt right but he kept saying it was. Damnit

 

[modo]

it isnt!? then wtf was he messing with?

unless someone changed it out i have no idea, but the fill plug is the same as the drain plug

 

[GDTrumbo]

Sounds like you need a "CobraBobs" gasket at the shifter base as well.

GT

 

[ryclef331]

THere is a drain and fill plug if I remember correctly and both are 3/8" drive plugs. one is high than the other. For the fill being obvioulsy higher, you just fill it until the fluid pours out of it and you're good