Funky smell

[veritas4156]

Alright so I've been smelling some burning/grinding/very hot metal lately and its making me worry. Happens pretty much every time I drive my truck. No smoke or anything, not burning oil, everything's good on the engine side.

 

However, I did just change the muffler on my rather rusty exhaust system. Used lots of muffler sealer. Possible cause A.

 

Possible cause B: Just changed the clutch, painted the tranny and transfer case with bright yellow engine paint while they were out of the truck, changed my tranny fluid to 10w40 Castrol Syntec after reading a whole bunch of things online about what to use in the AX15, and threw some B&M Synthetic Trick Shift into my T-case after draining it because it normally takes regular ATF and I had this stuff laying around so I figured it'd work better cuz its synthetic and has "Trick" in the name.

 

Doesn't seem like anything is leaking, fluid levels seem good, I'm just paranoid about burning out a tranny or Tcase before winter. I've only put maybe 300 miles on the truck since I did all this.

 

Any thoughts?

[JACKED88]

Alright so I've been smelling some burning/grinding/very hot metal lately and its making me worry.

 

Any thoughts?

First .... what exactly does "grinding" smell like? :dunno:

 

Have you checked your brakes? You may have one that's sticking.

[64 Cheyenne]

If it smells that hot, look for hot spots. Shouldn't be that hard to find.

 

Brake drums, rotors, bearings etc.

[jimmy21669]

I used gear oil in my AX15....does 10x40 have enough viscosity for a manual tranny?

[veritas4156]

I used gear oil in my AX15....does 10x40 have enough viscosity for a manual tranny?

 

There are a million posts about this. I just figured I'd try it.

http://www.comancheclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2318&start=0

 

Regarding the brakes, that's a good thought. Wish I had one of those temp laser things to help search.

 

Oh, and grinding smells like :banana:

[Pete M]

I used gear oil in my AX15....does 10x40 have enough viscosity for a manual tranny?

 

 

10w40 engine oil? that should work fine. Chrysler recently changed the specks from gear oil to motor oil on that trans.

[Comanche County]

JP mag just did an article on Ryobi Tek4 tools. One of those temp gauges can be bought at home depot for 70 bucks,,,,ouch

 

http://www.homedepot.com/Featured-Produ ... ogId=10053