Torque converter seal

[Jeremy Cottrell]

For the second time I have seen a 986 Boxster tip which has suffered from a leaking torque converter seal. And for the 2nd time I have seen the seal race which has gotten so hot that it siezed to the torque converter and parted company with the rest of trans. Never shall the 2 meet again.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Has anyone been able to fix one?

[Jeremy Cottrell]

Fix it without replacing the whole transmission that is. :o

[xflyboyx]

Jeremy I dealt with this problem earlier this year

here is the link

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...l=rms&st=20

and yes it is fixable no problem, I did the job myself, the only thing is if you are mechanically inclined and this is not you everyday DIY

requires alot of patience, time and money.

Since you mentioned the seal race has seized then I assume the tranny is out of the car already.

you have to look at the place where the seal race sits in that would be you front pump, if it is damaged

then you have to replace the front pump and remanufacture the TC ( front pump I purchased from a tranny shop in san mateo ca for around $190.00 and remanufacture the

TC for about $300.00).

let me know if you are going to do it yourself and all get you more info on this

[Jeremy Cottrell]

Wow, thanks for the reply! I looked on PET and it did not show that pump being available seperatly. Do you have a part # for it?

[xflyboyx]

Jeremy

look at the pix of the front pump has the part#, I suggest go to this website http://jie.com/

juergen is the guy name I dealt with, they are very very helpful and can ship

the parts to you in any way you want. I got the front pump from a transmission shop

in san mateo, ca http://www.peterschmid.com/page1.htm ( ask for wolfgang, very nice man )

not sure if they have the pump in stock.

front pump assembly pix

most of the parts they come in a kit but these guys can sell them separately

I had a hell of a time looking for these parts, I even almost got the parts from

london, GB, but I stumbled into that jie.com website and got what I needed

If you are going to do this yourself you need more than the front pump.

there are 5 rubber sleeves ($7.?? a piece) that you need to take out to remove

the front pump assembly ( again not any easy job, you have to be very

patient) after you remove the valve body.

you'll know what you need as far as parts once you disassemble the tranny.

This is the Tranny parts catalog

http://www.zf-group.com/pdf/5HP19FL.pdf

let me know if you need more help

question: when you decelerate to a stop lets say, do you shift down to 1st gear

from 30mph or less in manual mode?