Archived Atf Everywhere!!!!

[budctdca]

ok so last night after i swapped fuel plates and went for a hard test run, i went over to a friends house. after staying for about an hour we went to leave and i looked at my truck and it looked like there were leaks from every part of my truck underneath. i didn't think much of it because the sprinklers had been on and i thought they had got under my truck.



unfortunately as i drove home ( at 1am) the transmission started shifting really "light" and wouldn't stay in overdrive lockup, i thought ohh there goes my transmission, but then i noticed my trans temp gauge was barely reading 100.



so i barely made it home and this morning i noticed fluid in the dirt under my transmission. so this evening i put some fluid in it to see where it was leaking from, i thought originally it was the front pump seal, but when oil started spraying out of the soft rubber oil cooler line, i figured it out



heres the dilemna, these things are stuck on there BAD!!!! i am using flare nut wrenches, but the harder i turn, the more the hard line wants to snap.

anyone got ideas>????

 

[LTustison]

You may have to cut the fittings out and start over with hose/clamps ot new compression fittings. I doesn't look like you have much room, but a small tubing cutter would be best. A small "tiny tim" plumbers copper saw would work, but you would most likely end up with filings in tubing, ok if you get it all out, but...

 

[Stamey]

Try heating it. Now don't get out the acetylene and a rosebud, but use a propane torch to carefully heat it. You don't want to heat it too much, but enough heat will break it loose.



Chris