cooterbrown
Jun 11 2009, 02:06 PM
I recently purchased a 27' Class C motorhome with the old Ford 460 EFI motor. It's a 1993 Gulfstream Conquest. After doing about 100 mile shakeout run I was parking on the side of my folks house where I keep it. To squeeze it in their RV access, I have to back up and go forward about 19 times- you know the drill. After I parked it, I noticed a nice trail of trans fluid on the driveway. I fired the RV back up and looked under it and fluid was just pouring out of the bottom of the torque converter around a 1" rubber plug. The neighbor came over and took a look and said he thinks it probably blew a seal somewhere within the trans. He said I'm looking at probably having it towed to a shop where they are going to have to drop the trans and locate the source of the leak. The transmission felt great while driving and we caught the problem early so I'm hoping there isn't any additional damage to it. I'm just wondering what you all think I'm dealing with here and a ballpark on how much this is going to run me. I don't know what model the transmission is- I could do some digging around and find out though. Thanks for your opinions.
Kevin
Jun 11 2009, 05:32 PM
sounds like it could be the front pump seal. its about 15 bucks for the part but labor is a different story. trans has to come out to replace it.
Romans9
Jun 11 2009, 05:47 PM
QUOTE (Kevin @ Jun 11 2009, 08:32 PM)

sounds like it could be the front pump seal. its about 15 bucks for the part but labor is a different story. trans has to come out to replace it.
Yep sounds right.
cooterbrown
Jun 11 2009, 09:14 PM
Thanks guys...Any idea how many labor hours the book says this job should take?