iLoveMyExploder
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- 1993 Explorer XLT 4X4
a couple months ago I posted about my transmission, thinking it had burned out. short and sweet story: I was about 15 or 20 miles away from home and started smelling something weird- for about 5 miles. stopped at a parts house and put a quart of fluid and a bottle of lucas transmission fix in the transmission, as it was a quart and a half low- I assumed it was leaking, but I did not see any leak underneath it in the parking lot..... then went on to towards the house. then there was smoking.... really bad smoking just got worse as I kept going- with a smell I still cant recognize- and a black cloud trailing behind me. really had to push the engine to try to maintain speed- even with the tranny topped off, it had trouble shifting properly and maintaining speed. So i got the truck to the house and hadn't really fooled with it since- I assumed I had burned up the transmission driving it like that....
yesterday I went out to start it up and let it run a few minutes, then decided to check the fluids. again, the transmission was low- by a quart. I had half a bottle of lucas transmission fix sitting around..... so I put that in the transmission- along with half a quart of transmission fluid. then for ***** and giggles, I thought I would drive it around a bit. took it around the neighborhood (3 miles) at low speeds (no more than 30mph)- then onto the farm road (one an a half mile) to see how it acted during highway speeds- it performed normally as if nothing was wrong with it.
then I parked it- with the engine still running, I actually crawled underneath it trying to find leaks.... I could not find any! .... but if it is losing fluid- then it must have a leak somewhere, right? I got to thinking, maybe a transmission line might be broken and leaking/spraying fluid out only while the truck is in motion? possibly spraying it onto a exhaust pipe, explaining the horrible smoking it did the previous time I drove it? I didn't see any evidence of this, but its difficult for me get underneath it to get a good look since im so damn fat.
where could it be leaking from? blown gasket? busted a line?
...but I did see something unusual- there was some kind of metal tube hanging down at the transmission and going upward toward the engine- this tube seems to be free standing underneath there- not too far from the transmission pan- on the left hand side between the transmission and the parts for the front wheel drive parts.... there are no other tubes around it from what I could see- so it does not appear to attach to anything else under there. also, the other two (2wd) explorers I had do not have this. is this metal tube part of the 4WD?
thanks in advance for answers and advice!
yesterday I went out to start it up and let it run a few minutes, then decided to check the fluids. again, the transmission was low- by a quart. I had half a bottle of lucas transmission fix sitting around..... so I put that in the transmission- along with half a quart of transmission fluid. then for ***** and giggles, I thought I would drive it around a bit. took it around the neighborhood (3 miles) at low speeds (no more than 30mph)- then onto the farm road (one an a half mile) to see how it acted during highway speeds- it performed normally as if nothing was wrong with it.
then I parked it- with the engine still running, I actually crawled underneath it trying to find leaks.... I could not find any! .... but if it is losing fluid- then it must have a leak somewhere, right? I got to thinking, maybe a transmission line might be broken and leaking/spraying fluid out only while the truck is in motion? possibly spraying it onto a exhaust pipe, explaining the horrible smoking it did the previous time I drove it? I didn't see any evidence of this, but its difficult for me get underneath it to get a good look since im so damn fat.
where could it be leaking from? blown gasket? busted a line?
...but I did see something unusual- there was some kind of metal tube hanging down at the transmission and going upward toward the engine- this tube seems to be free standing underneath there- not too far from the transmission pan- on the left hand side between the transmission and the parts for the front wheel drive parts.... there are no other tubes around it from what I could see- so it does not appear to attach to anything else under there. also, the other two (2wd) explorers I had do not have this. is this metal tube part of the 4WD?
thanks in advance for answers and advice!