94 Explorer
~ 120k miles
After some problems getting it into gear, and keeping it in gear, my mom took her explorer to the trans shop. They drove it, tightened a couple lines, and replaced the ATF, which was low. I think they ended up putting about 4 quarts in.
Since then it has been consistently losing ATF and having the same problems. There are a couple hard lines below the radiator that are wet, but I don't believe they could be leaking enough to be causing these problems (there's never any dripping on the driveway).
The tech suggested that maybe it was leaking ATF into the cooling system in the radiator, but never investigated further.
The car seems to run okay, so it doesn't seem like it's burning a ton of ATF off by a bad vacuum modulator, but I suppose it could be. Where is the line located that I need to check? I have no manual and can't locate it, or if I have, I don't know it.
How do I know if it's leaking into the coolant? If I drain the coolant will I see the red ATF tint in the green coolant?
Thanks for any responses. I'm lost on this one... hate auto trannies
~ 120k miles
After some problems getting it into gear, and keeping it in gear, my mom took her explorer to the trans shop. They drove it, tightened a couple lines, and replaced the ATF, which was low. I think they ended up putting about 4 quarts in.
Since then it has been consistently losing ATF and having the same problems. There are a couple hard lines below the radiator that are wet, but I don't believe they could be leaking enough to be causing these problems (there's never any dripping on the driveway).
The tech suggested that maybe it was leaking ATF into the cooling system in the radiator, but never investigated further.
The car seems to run okay, so it doesn't seem like it's burning a ton of ATF off by a bad vacuum modulator, but I suppose it could be. Where is the line located that I need to check? I have no manual and can't locate it, or if I have, I don't know it.
How do I know if it's leaking into the coolant? If I drain the coolant will I see the red ATF tint in the green coolant?
Thanks for any responses. I'm lost on this one... hate auto trannies