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(Message started by: Powelly on Apr 11^th, 2006, 10:34pm)

Title: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by Powelly on Apr 11^th, 2006, 10:34pm

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?
Thanks in advance
Powelly

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by Jim on Apr 11^th, 2006, 11:01pm

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/coolerpipes.htm shows the 24v pipes, but all are similar with the cooler at the bottom of the rad.

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by mr._floppy on Apr 12^th, 2006, 12:55am

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.

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by paulscorp on Apr 12^th, 2006, 2:51am

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

regards

Paul

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by Snoopy on Apr 12^th, 2006, 6:47am

Might also be Power steering fluid a sudden gush of oil like that is more likely to be from the rack IMHO.

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by trogg on Apr 12^th, 2006, 5:16pm

had the same problem that snoopy mentioned power steering fluid

Title: Re: Whats that on the tarmac ? Auto box oil?
Post by Powelly on Apr 12^th, 2006, 9:55pm

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
Regards
Andrew