Engine/Transmission (1998.5 - 2002) Transmission Fluid Leak...

[JR2]

Left our Alaska Bombers meeting this afternoon and about 1/2 mile later the transmission started shifting real funny and the truck started slowing down. I pulled off the road and put it in park and back in drive. Nothing it still would hardly move. I got it moving and got back on the road but it was shifting constantly and slowing down. Decided to get off the road and parked in a gas station parking lot. Got out of the truck to check the transmission fluid level and discovered that most of it was on the ground around my truck. It appears that I have a massive leak on the up by the cooler on the drivers side. The entire from wheel well is coated, the side of my truck is coated, heck there is even some on the back of the truck. Any one ever blow the little connector lines between the cooler and the hard lines?? Can you buy the little hoses sepreatly? How hard are they to change without pulling the bumper?



Thanks



John

 

[JR2]

Did a little looking yesterday and found that one of the hoses to the cooler had come off. I put it back on and all is well. I think its kind of cheesy to hold a transmission line on with a hose clamp, but I guess thats what Dodge wanted. I will have to have a look at it this summer when the weather is better. Maybe a compression fitting would work on there.





Anyway, truck is back on the road. Thanks to TDR memeber Midnite (Mike) for the ride home and to Brobertson (Bob) for coming and draging my my truck on to the tralier and storing it beside his house for the night.

 

[DTangstrom]

Not that bad but mine started leaving big puddles. Dodge wanted big money for the lines. I just cut the couplers out of both tubes and joined together with some hydraulic hose, the push lock stuff from Parker. A couple of stainless hose clamps from Home Depot and that was it. Not the prettiest of fixes but one of the cheapest, about $10. Two years later and no leaks.