904 service 64,000 original miles

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After sitting for a few years, now that the car is running and been around the block a few times the pan gasket seems to be leaking. Runs nice, shifts very nice and the fluid smells and looks new. What would ya'll do?

edit: The homemade kickdown rod works great, also! Got a pic here somewhere.....
 
You know what happens when you snug up bolts on a pan with an old cork gasket? Red rain.
Best to fix it when you have time, it would suck if it starts dumping worse and transmission gets smoked.
 
Yea that's what i'm going to avoid. New gasket, filter? Can't remember, rear seal?
 
I would go ahead and service the tranny. You may need to straighten the pan around the bolt holes so the new gasket doesn't leak. The bolt holes have a tendency to flare out from the bolt torque. There are very nice reusable gaskets available now from the late model overdrives that works on the 904's . Here's a thread about them: Upgrades trans pan gasket
 
moparmandan said:
After sitting for a few years, now that the car is running and been around the block a few times the pan gasket seems to be leaking. Runs nice, shifts very nice and the fluid smells and looks new. What would ya'll do?

edit: The homemade kickdown rod works great, also! Got a pic here somewhere.....
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Perfect and sound advice by toolmanmike, and those reusable rubber gaskets are the ticket so I wouldn't use anything else since one of those.
There is a small cork gasket between the trans mount bracket and trans with 2 big Phillips screws in the metal cover so you might want to give an inspection since they are also cork and may be in the same condition, but other than that if it isn't leaking don't mess with it.

Filter, gasket and fill her back up should be just great.
PS. if you run it for a min just before you pull the pan you won't loose as much fluid.
 
And make sure you check it warm, idling in neutral.
 
My leak was the selector shaft seal. So about 90 days after fixing that the front seal started leaking. Stands to reason since they are all the same age. Good luck with yours.
 
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