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How about a little FIRE Scarecrow! 200

posted by  Jorrell on  Tue Apr 18 16:03 CST 2006
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Seriously, the recommendations other folks have made to try and find the leak are great, I'm sure one of them will lead to the solution. Since I didn't see what year your car is, I don't know if it has a converter or not, so I will assume it does. If no one mentioned checking the trans cooler lines where they are clamped at the bell housing flange, check it.

Back in 96 I had an auto trans cooler line blow out on a Cherokee, the fluid poured out and splashed back on the catalytic converter. After about a minute of white smoke pouring out of the back of the vehicle at freeway speed, the fluid finally ignited on the cat and the smoke was replaced by fire. We had enough time to pull over, grab the fire extinguisher (all of our vehicles have two of them now... one back then), and managed to put the fire out... vehicle saved except for the dripping plastic! Seriously, big oil or trans leaks have the potential to kill.

Besides, anyone following you will appreciate not having their windshields oiled up!

jorrell





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