Atomatic transmission help needed

[nirvana]

i bought a 90' ford bronco for my son, i have to admit that when i bought it the only thing i didnt check was the trans fluid. (yeah, i know!)
anywho, everything thing has been fine untill yesterday i towed a trailered car about 40 miles and just close to home the trans started douching fluid from the front of the trans....bad!
fluid is clean and didnt leak before. my thoughts are the front seal.
had to move it today and added three quarts to get it to go into gear...and it didnt leak out...

my question is....because it got hot....and may have been overfull i'm guessing....could it have blown the front seal?
now its cold and not flooding out, do you think that this could be cured by replacing the seal?
or am i farked?[]

its a 1990 4x4 5.8 with auto/overdrive

 

[66broncoCT]

Well this forum is mostly for 66-77 broncos but the guys here usually help with any questions. I'll even give it a shot. I'm not sure if its the e4od or the aod trans, do you have a push button to cancel o/d or do you pull the column from od to d? If its a button it's the e4od, and if its that then the front seal puking when it gets hot is fairly common. If your lucky it won't do it again but if not you're going to be pulling the tranny to do the front seal. Usually you can get by with just replacing the seal, if my memory serves me correctly, you can get a viton one as an upgrade, supposedly they hold up to the heat better.

 

[nirvana]

Well this forum is mostly for 66-77 broncos but the guys here usually help with any questions. I'll even give it a shot. I'm not sure if its the e4od or the aod trans, do you have a push button to cancel o/d or do you pull the column from od to d? If its a button it's the e4od, and if its that then the front seal puking when it gets hot is fairly common. If your lucky it won't do it again but if not you're going to be pulling the tranny to do the front seal. Usually you can get by with just replacing the seal, if my memory serves me correctly, you can get a viton one as an upgrade, supposedly they hold up to the heat better.

yep push button cancel. i'll do the viton seal as you suggest. thanks!

 

[Broncobowsher]

Probably the convertor seal. Just did one on a E4OD on a superduty. Everything was perfect but when he got stuck in traffic for a couple hours it warmed up and started pissing out the bellhousing. Once it cooled off it stopped. New seal fixed it. You could see the seal was worn but had no groove on the convertor. The fluid cost more then the seal for the fix.