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If I left the car in the garage for a week or more the drip pan under the transmission would collect a puddle of oil. The longer it sat, up until about a month, the more oil would collect. After that the leak about stopped. When I took the tunnel out I found out why:
About the only place it could leak there at the shift tower was at the o-rings sealing the shift shafts. Any easy fix I thought. When I disassembled the shift housing all went well until I got the the little square headed setscrew that locks the fork on the 3rd and 4th shift rod. The other two came right out although requiring a bit of force on the 12 point socket. The last one wouldn't budge and the socket rounded the square edges. I think the square is the same size as the square brake tool but I couldn't find mine so got out the grips. I don't have to tell you that the thing broke. I did sleep on it and managed to drill it out the next morning.
As you can see from the picture, it was not bound by the threads but rather by the (apparently) slightly tapered end that goes into the rail. This is a TR4 transmission and does not have the wired setsrews on the forks.
So two questions: Is it common for those o-rings to leak and is it normal for the lock bolts to bind?
Tom
About the only place it could leak there at the shift tower was at the o-rings sealing the shift shafts. Any easy fix I thought. When I disassembled the shift housing all went well until I got the the little square headed setscrew that locks the fork on the 3rd and 4th shift rod. The other two came right out although requiring a bit of force on the 12 point socket. The last one wouldn't budge and the socket rounded the square edges. I think the square is the same size as the square brake tool but I couldn't find mine so got out the grips. I don't have to tell you that the thing broke. I did sleep on it and managed to drill it out the next morning.
As you can see from the picture, it was not bound by the threads but rather by the (apparently) slightly tapered end that goes into the rail. This is a TR4 transmission and does not have the wired setsrews on the forks.
So two questions: Is it common for those o-rings to leak and is it normal for the lock bolts to bind?
Tom