GTV-6 Transaxle oil lead

["Fred Wright" <alfafredly@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Need your help here......While driving on beautiful Pacific Raceways 2.25 
road course in Seattle during a lapping day( at high rates of speed I might 
add) my GTV-6 decided to throw out some transmission oil.

It seemed to happen on hard left hand turns especially in turn 8 after some 
hard braking. It was a fairly warm day by Seattle standards 75-80 no 
humidity. The oil flew back on the muffler and caused a James Bond like 
smoke screen. I got that "OH- NO feeling" and exited the track at the first 
chance I got. Once I stopped, I noticed several small oil leaks(5-6 on the 
ground and a fair amount of oil on the lower tramission housing and the 
muffler. Maybe a 1-2 oz. altogether.

I let the car cool at the track and no more leaks. I drove the car home 
about 15 miles and a few drops were on the floor when I inspected it 
tonight. Not much though. I jacked up the car and took a good look at the 
transaxle. The leak seems to be on the left side of the trasaxle but it 
doesn't seem clear exactly where it is coming from. It looks like it has 
been leaking under motion for some time just a bit.  There was some oil 
around the speedo sender(My guess as the problem) and the reverse light 
socket but hard to tell. Good news is there are no cracks of missing bolts. 
Checked the oil level and it is down just a bit.

The transmission was recently rebuilt built by a local shop and has been 
working fine. Not a drop of oil from the tranaxle since it was done in Sept. 
until now?

Love to hear your thought and suggestions before I take it back to the shop.

Fred Wright
NWARC - Seattle " Home of the 2005 National Convention"
85 GTV-6
77 Spider
69 GTV

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