OK to drive this far after tranny leak?

[mr matt]

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My 55 oval sits in a very small garage, which a while ago, when I opened the door I noticed a lot of tranny fluid on the cardboard underneath the car. (Cardboard is always a VW must)
I do not know how much fluid is left.

No room in the small garage to know what is going on.
My main garage is about 50 ft away, but prior to that, need to go reversre and forward ~ 3x to make a turn to face the driveway.

Is it ok to very gently drive it( lowest speed/rpm effort made) that distance vs pushing it? After pushing it out of the small garage, there is a large area of 3/4 inch gravel making it tough to push off of. My back is not the greatest.

I will over inflate the tires to make rolling better...

Is "driving it" save to do?


Thanks
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1955 3-fold semaphore Oval beetle
1971 Convertible beetle
1977 Westfalia, FI, Berlin interior

[VW_Jimbo]

[Bub]

Nobody can really say what will happen or what the situation is-

But I can tell you I am certain that if you drive it 50 feet, or even a mile with a totally empty gearbox and it fails, it was going to anyway. If that short of a distance ends in disaster then there was no avoiding it, the damage was already done.
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[mr matt]

Found a tow bar, will use that... thanks for the input, appreciate it
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1955 3-fold semaphore Oval beetle
1971 Convertible beetle
1977 Westfalia, FI, Berlin interior

[VW_Jimbo]

[petrol punk]

Transaxle oil level is not as important as you think. I could drive to the store and back with no oil in the trans and not sweat it. And a large puddle on the cardboard sometimes only translates to a small amount of oil volume. You're fine to move the car around.
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36hp '56 European DeLuxe oval
'70 bug 1835cc

[pondoras box]

[my3bugs]

it could just be a cracked axle boot not an actual trans leak . you need to jack it up n take a look to see where its coming from ..........ill bet the boot just cracked ???

[RUNKLE]

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[mr matt]

Thanks again all!

Probably will give it a try this weekend I hope.., and I am hoping it is something simple as a cracked boot otherwise quite a bit of time and money...
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1955 3-fold semaphore Oval beetle
1971 Convertible beetle
1977 Westfalia, FI, Berlin interior

[mr matt]

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OK,
Got it in the garage under its own power... gentle and slow as ever.
No bad sounds from the tranny when it was moving..

just came out from crawling under it to find a boot has cracked well,
happy about that vs the 70 year old tranny having some mishap .

What bothers me is I put that boot on maybe 18 years ago, and it failed, whereas the one that came with the car is still intact

I am starting to look at what would be good quality rubber boot.. like from WCM, but first glance WCM sell seamless boots.. guess to put that one on need to disconnect the axle from the tranny. Rather not.
The seamed boots apparently do not leak at the seam at all.. and if I remember right, was not that bad to replace...although I have to look up again how to do it.

Then there is the question as to what oil goes into these boxes.
I changed it out before, but remember reading there was a better oil alternative that what I used.

Found it on WCM, but does not have their usual mention of "guaranteed for life, best quality rubber from WCM: kind of exposition

https://www.westcoastmetric.com/i-22963989-axle-bo...2OMUETzEoq
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1955 3-fold semaphore Oval beetle
1971 Convertible beetle
1977 Westfalia, FI, Berlin interior