Black_Sport
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- Nashville, TN
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- '02 Sport Trac
I have a 2007 V8 with about 80k on it and i noticed some red fluid under it the other day - maybe a tablespoon worth. I started to dive in and noticed that BOTH the lines going into the radiator had drops of red fluid.
I researched some and some people say just to replace the lines, some say its the radiator, others remove the lines and some how just use hose to bridge the gap.
I wanted to take off the connector that was holding the pipe into the radiator and it seems that when i start to loosen it, anti-freeze starts coming out. It appears that the transmission line feeds into the inner cooler with transmission fluid and the outer radiator is for anti-freeze.
Good thing though is that the antifreeze was green and didn't seem to have mixed with my transmission fluid.
My two questions:
I researched some and some people say just to replace the lines, some say its the radiator, others remove the lines and some how just use hose to bridge the gap.
I wanted to take off the connector that was holding the pipe into the radiator and it seems that when i start to loosen it, anti-freeze starts coming out. It appears that the transmission line feeds into the inner cooler with transmission fluid and the outer radiator is for anti-freeze.
Good thing though is that the antifreeze was green and didn't seem to have mixed with my transmission fluid.
My two questions:
- How do I best top off my fluid in the transmission while I figure out how to fix this?
- How do i fix this?