From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 23:45:53 PDT
I feel sorry for you on that tranny and the funeral too, you have my
condolences, but I am glad you and everyone else made it home safely.
GOTAM35 wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Jankowiak" <eccm@swbell.net>
> >
> > But back to the tranny. I am guessing you checked it before you moved out
> of Churchville and that a bad leak developed on
> > the road.
>
> Just to shed a little light on the subject of the transmission problem, no I
> didn't check it before I left but the leak, which I have not looked into
> yet, developed on the way home. It leaked the fluid out quick and almost
> all at once because the whole underside of the truck is covered. The safety
> chain on my jeep in tow was even wet with oil. I too am curious to know
> what happened and will post what I find later. We discovered the problem
> when we pulled over at the NC/SC state line on 95 and removed my ear plugs
> and notice the trans was making a new noise. I crawled under the truck to
> find it dripping fluid from the front of the transfer case all the way to
> the back of the truck. Even the spare tire was wet. We had driven 9 hours
> at this point and had 3 hours left. Must be something catastrophic. Will
> investigate when I get caught up at work and after this weeks funeral (been
> attending a lot of funerals lately). The trans is shot though. I'm just
> glad I have a real good one in another truck. Saturday night I didn't care
> about anything but getting home. I wish I had a bottle of GL-1 that I could
> have added to it. Even so at this point I think it had suffered damage that
> would make it unreliable.
>
> Joe Trapp
>
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