Thank you Evan,

I do indeed have the same condition with a spare transmission. Thanks for
figuring out a fix!

Dave Milo

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Evan Mac Donald <evanm@att.net> wrote:

> If you own a manual trans van, this will mean very little for you, except
> as a
> horror story, or a good laugh.
>
> Over this past summer I tried fixing the mystery leak on my '85 auto trans.
> The
> actual trans is from a '91, but that matters not. Both of the transmissions
> showed the same condition, to whit:
>
> There was a constant leak in the trans. Sometimes not much, sometimes quite
> a
> bit. (Like a pint in 100 miles.) I used every diagnostic trick I knew to
> track
> this down. I replaced the pan seal (x3), the governor cover seal, even had
> to
> replace the 2nd-reverse actuator piston. Did not seem to make much
> difference.
> The leak still appeared. My fluid level went down. I used more trans fluid
> than
> engine oil. And no, it was not going into the final drive.
> Despair. <snip>
>
>