[s-cars] Whats leaking? Between gearbox and torsen..

[Ivan Demkovitch]

I didn't try to smell it, but I'm not very sensitive to smell. I only felt it a little when filled up differential. But wasn't really shocked by smell of leaking differential. Will try to get some on my finger and see.
 
I flushed brake fluid about 4-5 months ago. Fluid coming out of slave looked "original" as it was all contaminated. May be it's slave leaking (I will be happy if it is) - but Brake fluid reservoir still full where I left it at.
 
Is it hard to separate torsen/transmission to replace gasket?
 
Ivan


----- Original Message ----
From: CLAG500 at aol.com
To: idemkovitch at yahoo.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:25:12 AM
Subject: Re: Whats leaking? Between gearbox and torsen..


My guess would be that you have some dripping from the slave. Looks too thin to be trans oil and trans oil most definitely has a smell. You can see in this picture that anything dripping from the slave would end up where you are seeing it. 
 
http://www.elektro.com/~audi/01E/parts/img05.jpg
 
You could reach up where the slave is and see it there is any fluid there. The slave is the piece with the s-shaped hard line going in to it. 
 
Chad
 
In a message dated 6/24/2006 10:30:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, idemkovitch at yahoo.com writes:
Chad,
 
I'm not even sure if it's stinky or not. I don't smell anything. And no, may be it's no a LEAK but this is only leak I'm aware of on this car. And I hate them. And I will fix it since transmission will be out anyway.
But it seem like it's coming between gearbox and torsen(?)
Did anybody have this kind of leak?
 
Is there online ETKA where I can look up part numbers?

Thanks,
Ivan