94gtbuilder

I had a bad tail shaft seal. I replaced it. While it was leaking the tranny fluid was being thrown everywhere. Needless to say, it was being burnt off and was pretty unpleasant. Anyways, no more smelly odor but I do feel some heat coming out of my transmission opening in the floor pan. I destroyed my lower shift boot and have not have time to pick up the new one. Is it normal to have some heat in that area? Without the lower shift boot in place, I can feel the heat whenever I shift or my hand is on the shifter. In no way does it burn me but it is noticeable. Again is this normal? I imagine thats the reason why the boot is there in the first place, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask around. As a by the way, I did refill the transmission to the fill line after I replaced the tail shaft seal so if there is some heat there that shouldn't be it is not due to low fluid levels.

Boss_Hotrod

Those rubber boots will let in a lot of heat and noise if torn or missing.

94gtbuilder

Thanks for your answer. I assumed as much but I wasn't positive.

vedin341

I have a 2010 v6 and a few days ago my car over heated,smoke everywhere so i tried adding some more coolant to see if that was the problem....well it wasn't now my temp gage doesn't move from the middle but yet when i park my car i see smoke coming and there is some sort of noise like water boiling on the engine i am extremely confused and do not know what it could be because of....any help guys ?

g96v6-250k

you should have started a new thread lol. are you sure its smoke and not steam? where is it coming from? make sure there is no oil in the coolant and no milkey look to the oil from coolant.