Manual gearbox oil seal leak replies needed please

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Manual gearbox oil seal leak replies needed please
1 July 2009, 10:06 PM

JP147
Joined 29 Dec 2007
31 posts

On the 23rd of June I took my 1999 Ford Focus 1.8 petrol to a garage to have diagnose and possibly fix my gearbox leak. The trouble is the garage said that the gearbox would have to be removed from the vehicle and "stripped down" in order to replace the gear selector linkage seal from inside the gearbox at a cost of about £300. Not only did they get this wrong but took it upon themselves, without asking my permission, to use a sealer in the gearbox/oil in order to try and stop the leak. Not happy with this, I took the car for a second opinion at a Ford garage I have used for a few years now and as soon as the technician got the car off the ground and looked underneath the transmission casing he said that it was the selector shaft seal that was leaking and that it could be renewed at a cost of about £85! without any need at all to separate the gearbox from the vehicle.

He also said that he could not see any sign of the sealer that the garage supposedly used. I intend to get the job done properly now at the Ford garage I mentioned.

However my concern is if the garage has used sealer mixed in with the oil would it necessarily damage the gears, bearings etc inside the gearbox and also the Ford technician checked the oil level in the gearbox and said that it was quite full. This could be just because the vehicle had been driven.

Does the oil level in the gearbox rise after the vehicle is driven and is it possible to overfill a manual gearbox and should I be worried ?

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Manual gearbox oil seal leak replies needed please
1 July 2009, 10:39 PM

fasty
Joined 27 Jun 2007
1491 posts

as far as i know the filler is in fact the level plug so they have either drained some oil and topped up the the sealer or they have forced the sealer in and quickly put in the filler/level cap it depends how much oil came out when the level plug was removed do you know how much was put in, the wyn's addative i have seen are around 1/2 litre i would not worry too much

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