Need Help - Leaking Fluid Badly
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From: Tucson, AZ
Need Help - Leaking Fluid Badly
Hey all,
On the way home from a long spirited night of driving in my vette (notably one missed shift where I hit 2 instead of 4, but I pressed the clutch back in before the car was able to over-rev), I noticed white smoke coming into the car through the open targa top...I immediately pulled over to find that clear-greenish fluid was leaking pretty quickly out of the very rear of the car on only the right side (the smoke was the fluid burning off the hot exhaust pipes)...I had no choice but to drive the car the 25 miles home because otherwise I would have been stranded all night in the middle of nowhere, and it drove fine...The transmission shifted as normal, power was going through the differential, and didn't see any weird noises...I recently had my rear end and transmission rebuild after blowing both at the track if that makes any difference at all...I assume not to drive it any more from here on out since all of the fluid will be drained by the time I get back out to it again...Any advice you guys can offer me is greatly appreciated since I am having a really hard time pin pointing exactly what is wrong with my car
On the way home from a long spirited night of driving in my vette (notably one missed shift where I hit 2 instead of 4, but I pressed the clutch back in before the car was able to over-rev), I noticed white smoke coming into the car through the open targa top...I immediately pulled over to find that clear-greenish fluid was leaking pretty quickly out of the very rear of the car on only the right side (the smoke was the fluid burning off the hot exhaust pipes)...I had no choice but to drive the car the 25 miles home because otherwise I would have been stranded all night in the middle of nowhere, and it drove fine...The transmission shifted as normal, power was going through the differential, and didn't see any weird noises...I recently had my rear end and transmission rebuild after blowing both at the track if that makes any difference at all...I assume not to drive it any more from here on out since all of the fluid will be drained by the time I get back out to it again...Any advice you guys can offer me is greatly appreciated since I am having a really hard time pin pointing exactly what is wrong with my car
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Pro
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 531
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From: Tucson, AZ
Yes green which is confusing since I have never seen green fluid from a car...I know they put some new kind of fluid in my differential when it was rebuilt, a modern fluid that supposedly never has to be changed...So I'm thinking thats what it was
