I've had a small oil leak (since some offroad adventures), when I got under the truck, I found it was coming from the torque converter (in front of the transmission). I took off the crossmember that protects the engine oil pan, cleaned the oil, and tighten bolts and waited to see if still has the leak.
It does, right at the cover under the torque converter (about a 4" x 7" black metal plate held on by four small bolts), but only immediately after driving. I took this cover off, and was surprised to find ALOT of sand. I cleaned out as much as I could, cleaned and replaced the plate cover.
So, if anyone knows for sure, I have two questions:
1) Is this using the same oil as the transmission, I mean, am I going to find the entire transmission full of sand?, or should the transmission be sealed off from this area pretty good? (I've got no ill transmission symptoms.)
2) The little plate cover thing I took off the bottom of the torque converter, is that supposed to have a gasket all the way around it?, cause mine just has a strip on one side next the the oil pan. I see no way this plate was ever meant to hold any amount of oil up in the converter, because it's just a plate with 4 bolts, am I right? Is that area usually pretty void of oil?
Thanks guys- Scott
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