Marla,
Have many times has your tranny been opened? You just are not having luck.

A very good possibility is your leak is from the governor seal. 1-2 hour
repair, tranny stays in place. Not that big a deal.

Dennis

>From: Marla Stelk <mjstelk@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Reply-To: Marla Stelk <mjstelk@HOTMAIL.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: ATF leaking into differential
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:18:29 -0400
>
>Hello -
>
>I discovered ATF leaking under the van so I checked my gear oil level and
>ATF fluid came pouring out mixed with gear oil.  My auto tranny seems to be
>working fine and when I checked the ATF level it seemed okay - checked it
>with the van idling (which I still haven't been able to fix - the idle - I
>think its my throttle valve switch...) - so my question is - how dangerous
>is it to keep driving it in this condition?  I'm guessing its going to cost
>about 1k to get the tranny seal replaced and so I'm definitely going to
>have to sell it.  But I don't have another car and have to get to work.
>But I clearly don't want to damage the inerts of the tranny either - can I
>just keep topping off the fluid until the next owner can get the seal
>replaced?
>
>Thanks,
>MJ
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