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Powelly
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Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« on: Apr 11th, 2006, 10:34pm » |
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Evening all
I was wondering if anybody could help me?
I parked my 12v ultima this evening by reversing into my parking spot, locked it and walked into the house. I returned about 15 minutes later, and to my horror I found a great deal of oil on the floor and running down the road!
It looks redish in colour so I'm presuming its transmission fluid but I can't be sure, although I checked the level and it wasn't showing on the dip stick, it seems to be coming from around the near side some where roundabout under the aircon pump. Is there a transmission fluid cooler on the front as I seem to remember something about some pipes corroding through?
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Powelly
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Jim
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 11th, 2006, 11:01pm » |
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http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/coolerpipes.htm shows the 24v pipes, but all are similar with the cooler at the bottom of the rad.
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #2 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 12:55am » |
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Could be the dreaded rust bug has corroded the ATF pipes leading from the auto box to the cooler rad , a notorious weak spot as the pipes are mild steel and get attacked by rain and salt all year.
Good news, fairly cheap to fix.
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paulscorp
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #3 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 2:51am » |
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Seems to be quite a common problem and Flopster is right, it is neither expensive nor difficult to remedy. I would recommend, if you haven't got one already, trying to acquire and engine tray, doesn't eliminate this problem completely but certainly helps to deflect a lot of road muck out of the engine bay and on to parts
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #4 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 6:47am » |
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Might also be Power steering fluid a sudden gush of oil like that is more likely to be from the rack IMHO.
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #5 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 5:16pm » |
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had the same problem that snoopy mentioned power steering fluid
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Powelly
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Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
« Reply #6 on: Apr 12th, 2006, 9:55pm » |
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Thanks for the help,
I've checked the power steering resovoir and it has lost any fluid so I'm hoping for its the cooler pipes
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Andrew
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