bjjohns

It's a spin on, and I changed it after the first event. It also has a metal screen style inside (You can get them from any autoboxstore). I'll change the spin on again - thats cheap. Might work.

I've not noticed any water on the second or third oil changes I did, I din't think to look on the first one. There really isn't much to "Change", At this point, if I don't run my "separator" (which puts the overflow back into the transmission oil dipstick tube) I will lose 1 gallon of oil in less than 2.5 miles, nearly emptying the transmission pan. When I pull the cooling lines from the bottom of the cooler, I get foamy oil with a discoloration that indicates the presence of water (which is what started me down the water path). I'm going to pressure test the tranny cooler tonight.

I Don't think it is going into front diff, no overflow from it's vent. I did check flow through tranny cooler, but not pressure. I don't believe the radiator and the tranny cooly physically connect, I think the tranny cooler is just a air cooled fin assembly, but I will check - I haven't looked at it that close. All that being said, I have popped the front diff dipstick while running down the road since this happened - That tells me I am over pressuring it some how. I am still getting a little water - very little water in the oil. I am thinking that because the torque converter spins, and the oil sits on top of the water, I have a permanently trapped bit of water in there that is not coming out till he heats up. Then it boils, foams the oil, and makes it go out the vent. All of the oil is coming from the trans vent. The front diff vent is clear, breathes fine, and shows no oil. Attached pic is how I am separating oil, water, and steam when parked. Pretty hillbilly, but is working.

2001 Subaru Forester. I changed the engine. Because I was a stubborn idiot, I screwed up and pulled the torque converter with the engine (Yea, don't do that). I do not have a garage, and I left the converter outside uncovered for a couple of weeks. Got new to me $150.00 junkyard engine with 62K on it installed no problems. New oil, new plugs boom running. 100 miles in and my car start smoking heavily and catches on fire. I pull over, pop the hood, put out the fire. Oil is pouring out of the vent tube coming from the top of the tranny. I tow it home, change tranny oil & filters. Fill it back up. Warm it - all is fine. Drive off and within 3 miles smoke starts pouring out again. I've completely changed oil twice (thinking there is water trapped in the torque converter) and still this is happening. I created a air/oil/water separator that lets me run it kinda ok, but I till have oil coming out that vent. Anybody have any thoughts? Bill J. Ohio