I pulled into the job this morning ready to load and haul dirt for the day. While outside on the ground I noticed water pouring out the bell housing right where you grease the thro out bearing.
Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
I had actually noticed very small amounts leaking each day last week when parked.
This truck has a Cat C-13 and an Eaton fuller 8 LL Tranny.
I put about 3 gallons of water in it and trucked it back to the shop. Luckily I wasn't too far away.
07 KW T800 Leaking Water Out the Bell Housing
Discussion in 'Kenworth Forum' started by Lowboy456, May 28, 2019.
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Check your transmission level. You might have a water to oil transmission cooler and its leaking, dumping coolant out the input shaft seal?
May be a leak on the back/above the engine and dripping down into that area?spsauerland Thanks this. -
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I'm not at all familiar with the C-13 so I don't know if there are any coolant galleys or plugs around the flywheel housing or not.
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We found the problem. Turns out there's a 2x12 inch pipe like water cooling chamber on the outside of the transmission.
Oil from the transmission is pumped through a coil inside that chamber. The coil inside has corroded and letting water into the transmission.
I suppose you could loop the water line together and cap the lines from the transmission to get on down the road? Its Pricey! Its the Perterbilt Heat Exchanger Kit. $454.27
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spsauerland Thanks this.
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If you're in it that deep, I would toss a reman 13 speed in it. Along with a new clutch. Coolant turns to a nasty sludge and reeks havoc on a gear box. And it would suck very much bad to have the trans crap out. Just my 2 cents without knowing how deep your pockets are.
Tombstone69 and Intothesunset Thank this. -
Use ATF. Attached the Eaton procedure.
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I had to flush the radiator good as well I got about 1 gallon of oily sledge out of it.
So far so good!Last edited: May 30, 2019
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