antifreeze in case and smoking like hell help.

[MILODUKE]

hi what do you think my banshee needs. its smoking white bad and running bad. also water is in the trans gear oil. i did replace the head gasket and did not do anything. help

[metricmaster]

Sounds like seal on water pump to me

[Banchetta]

Even if the water pump seal let go, that would explain the antifreeze in the tranny, but how would it get into the lower end or cylinder? Sounds to me that the crank seal went allowing tranny fluid to get into the lower end. Maybe your burning the tranny fluid and not antifreeze....right cylinder, correct?

[Snopczynski]

Water pump seal has to be one issue, or rubber plugs in the bottom of the cylinders are gone.

Edited February 8, 2007 by Snopczynski

[woodro77]

yes sounds like 2 different problems , water in the tranny is water pump seal but that wouldnt make it smoke , you changed the head gasket , could be the base gasket , maybe burning oil (crank seal )like Banchetta said but i had a bad crank seal once and it didnt smoke at all. it was blowing oil out of the owerflow tubes.

 

i would do a compression test , leak down test and pressure test the cooling system

[csrmel]

the waterpump seal could be one possibility, there is also an o-ring on the water pump outlet which is in the side cover. if that o-ring is leaking you can get water in the case.

 

if there IS water in the case, there would have to be alot of it for it to get sucked up into a leaking crank seal. sence water doesnt mix well with oil, it generally sits in the bottom of the case unless theres enough that some gears can touch it and splash it around. but that would have to be alot.

[Snopczynski]

The only way a leaking base gasket could do it is iff the plugs in the bottom of the cylinders are leaking or they are gone. Otherwise the antifreeze only runs about 3/4 the way down inside the cylinder walls. Did you retorque the head, or was it still leaking right away?