I look under the car and saw something leaking under the tranny cant seem to figure out what is leakin. Also noticed nasty stuff on my rims and tires so i looked under and saw the strut and steering rack covered with this grease stuff same with all over the wheel well. PIC BELOW!

 

 

You have a broken cv axle boot= replace axle

You either have a leaking rear main engine seal or leaking front tranny seal=ARHHG!! pia

Edit: The oil on the tranny looks like engine oil= rear main seal

 

Boots, Ax Le Seal...

 

yeah, what he said.
have fun replacing that rear seal.

 

Yup

Just done that over the weekend while i had the tranny out....Not fun

 

It might be gear oil/tranny fluid....

I think this pic show the passenger axle where it goes into the tranny....it does not appear to be fully seated...not even close.....have you had the axle worked on lately? It needs to be pushed in.

 

Actuallly that lip piece is moveable...You can tap it in with a hammer

 

Ok, well is this important to fix asap? I have been driving around proably for about a week maybe longer till I noticed today. How many hours would the axle take to do? What are the parts that are needed and how much? Is it worth fixing?

 

Can't he just replace the boot? So whats so PITA about the rear main seal anyway? Gotta remove tranny or something?

 

I had the same looking liquid on my balljoint cv shaft. I finally got a squeel from my power steering pump. my high pressure hose was leaking at high pressure.how i found where the leak was.... I opened the hood started the car and turned the wheel to left and then to right. when almost a full turn fluid from power steering hose shot out.
$180 dealer $35 autozone

 

So which is it? the Axle or the high pressure hose? I am going to take this to the shop tommarow need some help quick. My battery died now too so I am thinkin my alternators bad, it was a new battery about 8 months old. All this stuff at one time wow. Just fixed window regulator too.

 

He could just replace the boot,but i have found from EXPERIENCE that once the boot breaks,the cv joint is not far behind it...

To get to the seal you have to.....
Drain tranny fluid
Remove wheels
Remove brakes
Separate ball joint from control arm
Separate hub from struts
Remove drive shafts
Remove intake,battery/tray
remove tranny
Remove clutch components
remove flywheel
remove seal/put in new one
put all of that crap back on
Several steps to were left out or this would have taken me a hour to write up...But that is it in a condensed version...

 

That is axle grease in your wheel well....Not p/s fluid.....

 

the bottom of my tranny kinda loks like his tranny

 

The CV boot needs replaced right away. It could fail catastrophically at any time. Replacing boots is a PITA in my experience. You could try that or just get a new axle for like 60$ at autozone.

 

How long would it take to replace? Could I do it (Amature) or does a shop need to do it?

 

That is a question only you can answer..

 

LOL well wats is involved? Steps, parts, money, tools? Is it worth fixing or should get a new car?

 

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I would not recommend this job for a amateur with not many tools....Check the local shops in your area for a labor quote...

If you fix it then you know what you got riding under you,with another car you are in the dark again....

 

NO the steps to replace the CV boot?

 

just get a reman axle. its alot easier.

to change an axle, pull off wheel, 36mm nut, pull off strut (2 17's and 3 14's) turn splindle to get to axle, pull gently, incresing force with each pull till it comes out. for the drivers side, then for the pass side you need to get to 3 12mm bolts that hold a bearing carrier I had to take off the Y pipe which isnt hard. 6 12 or 14 or a mix of both. after that just yank out the pass axle and your set.

Oh and get PB Blaster. everything else is good but waste of money.

~Alex

 

Humm ok well I have really no experince with car stuff but is this a easy job? the most i ever did was y pipe, intake and some oil changes nothing more. How many hrs of work? and are the parts need to fix it. Will Advanced Auto have them in stock?

 

advanced should, thats where i got mine.

lets see, working at a moderate pace, about an hour to take out the axles. Are you also going to replace the tranny to axle seals? I would its $7 from internetautomart.com and your there any way. might be one of your leaks. should be about 2 hrs total depending on how many miles are on the ATF id change it insted of reusing it maybe. but yea its easy, souldnt be that hard after you've done stuff like the y pipe.

~Alex

 

i am just gonna have the shop take it and do it to much work for me, i have no idea on want to buy and wat i need and tools and stuff. Hope its no more then $400.

 

I think you could pull it off. Save yourself alot of money, cause they will try to rape you on labor charges any chance they get. Plus peice of mind of getting the job done yourself. Also gonna get yourself some hands on experience.

Hm, I see. I think if you catch it soon enough, you may be able to save it. On my GXE, when it happened, I put on a good 20k without any sign of trouble after only replacing the boot.

 

It gonna be fixed tomarrow my imports guy is fixin it 250 for the axle and labor.

 

That's robbery. The axle cost about $60, and most places shouldn't charge you more than $60 more to do the labor...try looking for a shop that specializes in axles/CV Joints

 

That's not a bad price for the combination. You could DIY cheaper than that, but the job can get to be a lot more difficult than it seems.

I did mine over the winter and found that every nut and bolt came off like it had been on the car 13 year. That short step of getting the hub nuts loose and controll arms involved a lot of swearing, , lube, heat, a 3' pipe and me jumping up and down on the breaker bar to get it off. If you haven't had your car apart, and you don't have good impact tools, it might be better to let a shop do it!

 

I think my reman axle was $70, the inner and outter replacement boots for the other side were about $30 total, $10 transmission oil, and probably 2-3 hours of labor after part mark-up. I don't regret doing my own, but if I was paying myself I wouldn't have made much at that price. All that being said, the job wasn't too bad after all the bolts were loose.

Oh yeah, I had to get a $40 front end allignment when I was done too.

 

Just got max back today all fixed. $250 Fixed the axle all new. After this waz done I noticed that my tranny shifts so much quicker now amazing. And the oil leak is my oil filter I looked at filter and saw that its leakin there **** filter. LOL saved me money