Leaking where?

That is a real optimal question, there aren't many places for ATF to go, and
all are pretty obvious, depending on which it is, you may want to take
action REAL fast.

First could be leaking somewhere trivial like out of the pan, obviously only
a minor inconvenience, new gasket, change your filter anyway.

Another good place is past the seal on the torque converter end.  This is
pretty obvious, will be slinging ATF all over the engine
compartment/firewall cause the cooling vanes on the converter make a real
nice centrifugel slinger thingies.  If everything at the juncture between
the engine and tranny is covered in ATF, this would be the problem.  Ugly
and not good for all the hoses, wires, etc in the area.  But mostly
harmless.  You got to pull the tranny, but it is only a $5 seal, maybe a new
converter bushing, not a big investment.

Now a not so immediately, but pretty obvious place, is leaking past the seal
on the other end.  This is leaking into the final under pressure.  THIS IS
MAJOR SHIT.  If you haven't yet found an external leak, pull the fill plug
on the final, if ATF mixed with not a whole hell of a lot of gear oil comes
running out (which it would at a pint a month) you need to do something now.
Finals aren't cheap, seals are, auto trannies even are to some extent.
Driving at this point is blowing $500 on $10 worth of parts and a day of
your labor to install the seal.

Final place I believe is out from the governor somehow, but I have never
removed a van governor, nor observed a leak there.

Anyway if it is an obvious external leak, it is at the most annoying
involving a day labor to replace the converter seal or an hour labor for the
pan seal.  If it is internal into the final, it is a lot more important to
salvage what you got, and hope that you caught it quick, can replace the
seal, drain and refill the final, and get a lot more time out of it.

John
vwbus@mindspring.com