Is your A4LD/4.0 combo like this?

[jg09]

Last August, I blew up my Explorer's transmission when I was out four-wheeling. I overheated it and heard a loud pop. After getting unstuck from my position, I noticed that the truck was leaking boiling tranny fluid pretty fast. I lost all the fluid in about 2 or 3 minutes. I collected some in the bottom of an energy drink can and found it was blackened and burnt smelling.

So I parked the truck for a while and finally looked at it yesterday. All the fluid came out between the engine and tranny. there's a gaskety, metal looking thing between the two. my question is, should it be seperated at the bottom? mine is, and that's where all the fluid leaked out. but the edges are rounded and don't look broken, and theres an indentation in the block that looks like it's been seperated for a while. Are other A4LD/4.0 combos like this?

 

[Nhaz]

I am not a transmission guy take that in to account before listening to me =>. I almost always just replace them.

The gaskety thing there isn't a gasket its a dust cover really. Chances are you blew the front seal after overheating it and eating off all the clutch material due to the fact it was boiling the oil at the time.

It may even be fine but my take is this: Did you want to take off and replace the front seal put it back and then find out what else is wrong with it?

I would just find another. Since you have to take it off anyways to replace the front seal and you can't be sure of the condition of the clutches until you refill it with fluid which will all just leak out again since you blew the front seal.

The amount of effort (and money) involved of working on the tranny I find its just easier and more cost effective to find another working tranny.

 

[jg09]

ultimately, that's what i'd like to do, is just completely replace it. I've actually got an ad in classified here offering to trade $600 worth of perry's fab'n'fiber fiberglass for a good condition a4ld.