{"id":19524,"date":"2025-02-10T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2025-02-12T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:43:09","slug":"transmission-fluid-leak-near-torque-converter-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=19524","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Fluid Leak Near Torque Converter Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some 2024-2025 Encore GX, Enclave, XT4, XT5, XT6, Blazer, Trailblazer, Traverse, Acadia, Terrain; and 2025 Equinox models equipped with the 9T45\/50\/60\/65 9-speed automatic transmission (RPO M3F, M3U, M3H, M3T, M3G, M3W, M3V) or 8T45\/65 8-speed automatic transmission (RPO MGH, MF8) may have a transmission fluid leak coming from the torque converter housing area. The leak may be due to insufficiently torqued transmission pump bolts. (Fig. 6)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19506\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/F06-trans-leak-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a leak is present near the torque converter housing area, check the transmission Julian build date listed in Bulletin #25-NA-001 and order the bolts required. (Fig. 7) The pump cover bolts are single use fasteners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19507\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/F07-trans-leak-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the bolts arrive at the dealership, remove the transmission and verify the transmission pump bolts are loose. If loose, replace all bolts and reinstall the transmission. (Fig. 8)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19508\" src=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/F08-trans-leak-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" \/><strong>Fig. 8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refer to Bulletin #25-NA-001 for more information, including part numbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>&#8211; Thanks to Mark Kevnick<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 2024-2025 Encore GX, Enclave, XT4, XT5, XT6, Blazer, Trailblazer, Traverse, Acadia, Terrain; and 2025 Equinox models equipped with the 9T45\/50\/60\/65 9-speed automatic transmission (RPO M3F, M3U, M3H, M3T, M3G, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-february-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19538,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19524\/revisions\/19538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}