AR97Pathfinder Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) After spending a while under the pathy looking for the front end clunking noise I also discovered that some tranny fluid is weeping from the transfer case. It’s around two bolts at the bottom of it towards the middle. https://imgur.com/gallery/MxmWNos Edited November 23, 2020 by AR97Pathfinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbot Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Sorry to hear that. Not much fun pulling those out. It’s interesting to see that apparently transfer cases on these don’t have paper or rubber gaskets. I’d assume it’s rtv https://imgur.com/gallery/RZSL78h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 The service manual calls for sealant in between each section. Rule out a leaking drain plug, switch, sensor, something simple to fix before assuming it's more than that. Unless it's leaking enough to drip, I'd probably ignore it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AR97Pathfinder Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 5 hours ago, Slartibartfast said: The service manual calls for sealant in between each section. Rule out a leaking drain plug, switch, sensor, something simple to fix before assuming it's more than that. Unless it's leaking enough to drip, I'd probably ignore it. Going to change out the fluid on the transfer case this week with Castrol Transmax high mileage ATF. Has seal conditioners in it. So I check everywhere good. An no it’s not dripping. Who knows how long it’s been like that anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AR97Pathfinder Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 The service manual calls for sealant in between each section. Rule out a leaking drain plug, switch, sensor, something simple to fix before assuming it's more than that. Unless it's leaking enough to drip, I'd probably ignore it.Well I changed the fluid after that last post. It’s still leaking ever so slightly. It’s actually coming from between the transmission and transfer case from what it looks like and then runs back a bit. I had cleaned it and checked back. And how I know it’s the transfer case side of it and not transmission is because prior to changing the case fluid the old brown fluid used to leak. Now the color leaking is red like the fresh fluid. I had originally thought it was coming from where the case itself separates but doesn’t look to be so. Doesn’t seem to drip much. From October to now there’s about 5 drop spots on the ground. I don’t know if it leaks more while it’s driven. I got a quote of around 300 bucks to drop the case and change the seals. Front, rear, and the one by the yoke for the front driveshaft. And will probably do the transmission rear also while at it. Don’t want to try this at home before I run into problems and then can’t even move the truck. Anyone else ever had a case leak from that area before? Was hoping to finish up my suspension work but I guess that’s on hold now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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