Hello folks,

I just got my 300D back yesterday, and decided to drive it to work this morning. I noticed that when I picked it up, that the shifts where early and abrupt, but I figured this was merely either an adjustment to the bowden cable and/or the modulator.
Everything went fine until I was about 5 minutes off the freeway... I noticed slipping... 1/2 mile later, while at a left hand turn lane, there was no movement whatsoever! First thought was that possibly a line was broken and it just bled all over the road. I happen to look behind the car, and noticed a large puddle of tranny fluid. Then, I looked under the car, and it was almost literally running out ot the tranny ( passenger side ). So, naturally I thought that the pan was loose. Seeing as how I was in the left hand turn lane at a very busy intersection, I decided to see if I couldn't get at least some movement of out it. (pushing was out of the question, the intersection was waaaay to big.) It made it across the intersection. The road there was on an incline, so i decided to coast. A phonecall to work, and within 10 minutes I had some quarts of fluid in my hands.
After adding a generous amount, I got back into the car, and took off...everything was as it was when I left my house earlier.
I took the car out for lunch, (I'm the one that ate, not the car ) -everyting was fine. My trip home consists of about 20-30 minutes on the expressway - shortly after getting to a normal road, and having to stop at a light, the slippage was back! I pulled into a service road, and had a look-see. Again, fluid leaking out in little streams. I had a huge migraine, and decided to go to the drugstore a few hundred feet away. After returning to the car maybe 10 minutes or less later, I got back in it and was able to continue driving as if nothing was wrong. ( go figure ) This time I was going to not go home, but to the mechanic who installed the rebuilt engine and also put in a new filter, along with a front seal. ( the modulator valve was either replaced then, or is quite new) I was just about there-all I had to do was make a left turn and into a driveway, when it started its slipping thing again- I made it by the skin of my teeth, and idled up his driveway. Looking under the car, little streams where once again visible. After sitting there for about an hour, he had a lift free and up in the air it went. He cleaned the area and tried to see where the leak might have been coming from. Nothing Then he decided to turn onthe motor and engage the trans. He looked again... and again... Nothing.
This for me is really weird.
Why would it only decide to leak like crazy once it was hot? Does this mean I have to move to Alaska? Is my transmission possessed and in need of an exorcism?

Any input is greatly appreciated!

-Larry

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D