{"id":77508,"date":"2021-06-05T03:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=77508"},"modified":"2021-06-05T03:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T10:36:00","slug":"2004-kia-spectra-lx-2-0l-manual-5-speed-transaxle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-lx-2-0l-manual-5-speed-transaxle","title":{"rendered":"2004 Kia Spectra LX 2.0L Manual 5 speed transaxle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The gear housing gasket on the transaxle is leaking.  Can I replace that gasket without removing the transaxle from the car, or would the gear shafts sag?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes you can remove this cover if you are referring to &#8220;B&#8221; in the transaxle identification diagram shown below. The shafts\/gears underneath are held in place with locking nuts. If you are talking about splitting the case then I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-housing-identification-diagram.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"727\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-housing-identification-diagram.jpg\" alt=\"2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-housing-identification-diagram\" class=\"wp-image-77577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-housing-identification-diagram.jpg 727w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-housing-identification-diagram-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-shaft-nuts.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"262\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-shaft-nuts.jpg\" alt=\"2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-shaft-nuts\" class=\"wp-image-77579\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-case.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-case.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-case.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-transaxle-case-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gear housing gasket on the transaxle is leaking. Can I replace that gasket without removing the transaxle from the car, or would the gear shafts sag? Yes you can remove this cover if you are referring to &#8220;B&#8221; in the transaxle identification diagram shown below. The shafts\/gears underneath are held in place with locking&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-lx-2-0l-manual-5-speed-transaxle\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2004 Kia Spectra LX 2.0L Manual 5 speed transaxle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16874,"featured_media":37688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-kia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2004 Kia Spectra LX 2.0L Manual 5 speed transaxle - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2021\/06\/2004-kia-spectra-lx-2-0l-manual-5-speed-transaxle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2004 Kia Spectra LX 2.0L Manual 5 speed transaxle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The gear housing gasket on the transaxle is leaking. 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