Maintenance Observations

[Alan Reagan]

I have a trip coming up this week and decided to do my first tire rotation.



My first observation is that the lug nuts were probably only torqued to about 50 pounds. Some not even that. Glad I haven't been towing.



I was checking everything out and found a light amber colored oil, like mineral oil weeping from the inspection plate on the transmission. After a few choice words, I pulled the plate and found the oil all over the mating surface between the plate and the transmission. I cleaned it up and then started looking for the source. I looked with a flashlight and mirror, put a clean towel up in the opening and it came back completely dry. It was completely dry inside the transmission area including the flywheel and TC. None anywhere. I'm thinking it was must have been residual cooling fluid from the machining process.



Everything else seemed good go. Any thoughts on the oil would be appreciated. It hasn't been dripping. Just he weeping out of the inspection plate hole.

 

[sno_bound]

I noticed mine had the same wet spot on the bottom of the inspection plate too! It eventually dried up and has been fine since. I'm now at 30,000 miles and all is good.

 

[craiggo]

I have a trip coming up this week and decided to do my first tire rotation.



My first observation is that the lug nuts were probably only torqued to about 50 pounds. Some not even that. Glad I haven't been towing.



I was checking everything out and found a light amber colored oil, like mineral oil weeping from the inspection plate on the transmission. After a few choice words, I pulled the plate and found the oil all over the mating surface between the plate and the transmission. I cleaned it up and then started looking for the source. I looked with a flashlight and mirror, put a clean towel up in the opening and it came back completely dry. It was completely dry inside the transmission area including the flywheel and TC. None anywhere. I'm thinking it was must have been residual cooling fluid from the machining process.



Everything else seemed good go. Any thoughts on the oil would be appreciated. It hasn't been dripping. Just he weeping out of the inspection plate hole.

I had the same thing on mine. I think it was the coating they used during the manufacturing process. I wiped mine clean and have not seen it again in a year.