Re: [ihc] 727 Fluid leak !!URGENT!!

["Ryan Moore" <baradium@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel M Brodsky" <jmbrodsky@domain.elided>
To: <ihc@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 10:26
Subject: [ihc] 727 Fluid leak !!URGENT!!


> Binders,
>       I'm getting my truck ready for a week long road trip that culminates
> in the Tulare event.  My plan was to take my 76 Traveler on the trip and
> pull my Dunbar Military trailer.  Well, this morning, my plans may have
> changed.  HUGE amounts of trans fluid leaking from the area directly
around
> the band adjustment/cooling lines/shifter levers.  It's all very clean
> there now, with fresh fluid all over.  Risk of flash fire is great with
the
> truck now, so I'd like to cure this and if I have confidence, then I'll
> take it on the trip.
>
> Any ideas where this thing could be leaking?  The cooling lines are tight,
> checked them in the parking lot this AM.  I'm thinking the shifter shaft
> seals, ilke I really want to have to do THAT job.  Drain, drop valve body,
> remove linkages, replace seals, reassemble.  Looks like about 3 hours,
> right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JoelB
>

Could be the lines, crack in the lines, maybe even a hairline crack in the
lines that gets bigger when hot?

When my shifter shaft seals were bad, it *only* leaked when left sitting for
extended periods, the more it was driven, the less it leaked.

BTW, you didn't have too much fluid in it did you? Maybe it just dumped some
out when it was warmed up and drained some out of the t/c.

-Ryan


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