Am I doomed to smell like ATF forever?

[Phil]

Go to take my F100 to work this AM
Fire it up rev it to the moon (5K in this case) to get it idling.

Run around it to move the wife's car and I see the trans cooler line blew off
and is making my front yard a giant bloody red crime scene

Damn, I blew neighbor of the year already


Transmissions are my kryptonite

[36truck]

Phil you & trans just don't mix.

[FORDBOYpete]

FWIW Phil,
The colder ATF is the more dense it becomes thus higher hydraulic forces are at lower & lower RPM . . . . . .

If excess PSI blows lines apart externally, what could be happening internally ?

One reason Lincoln used Slipshift in their C6's. Aha!

Let the sucker high idle to wake up, don't force it with a qwik 5k burst like that.


CIAO,

FBp

[shawns fords]

FWIW Phil,
The colder ATF is the more dense it becomes thus higher hydraulic forces are at lower & lower RPM . . . . . .

If excess PSI blows lines apart externally, what could be happening internally ?

One reason Lincoln used Slipshift in their C6's. Aha!

Let the sucker high idle to wake up, don't force it with a qwik 5k burst like that.


CIAO,


FBp

not only that but reving a cold engine is extremely hard on the internal components, you can score the bearings really bad, oil is not even pumped up through the entire oiling system right away as well

[Phil]

It was a hose that popped off the hardline

I usually only use hardline but the truck cam with some rubber lines

I flared the lines end and slipped it further than the 3/4" the PO stuck it in. I also added 2 hose clamps to suppliment the single that was on it

The trans is going for rebuilding this summer for sure. It always drips from the front pump bushing and fixing it myself is out of the question.

[FORDBOYpete]

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I hear ya Phil,
I know about "PO" Deals too too much. Everytime I get another unit I do a major "go thru & over" on it. I find
the stupidest things are done. It sounds like you got it under control now though. Expanding end's way to go.

But still, Shawn is right & I agree 100%. "Romping" a cold engine like that is the qwikest way to kill it.
Like Shawn says there's about zero to none for oil in uppers of Ice Cold Engines. And residual on crank
& rods won't lube like it needs to until it gets some heat in it. It is too viscous to flow easily or thoroughly
thru gallies of a cold engine, plus what is there is cold & will have radical or radically fluctuating PSI's.
Another Boogey Man in the Woodpile is if you get air entrained lubricating oil. Air has no lube capability at all.

I learned to practice patience with my engines by wasting them from being in a hurry too often. Just start 'em earlier.
But in all actuallity moving down here where a night in the 30's is a rarity was my true cold engine solution,
but I still let them warm & circulate a tad before I move. I also let my whole PCM initialization complete itself
Before I start to crank the engine over at all. I'd hate to have to sit in a 15 degree car & wait for everything
to get ready and then to get going also.

. . . . .

[shawns fords]

Phil, A trick I learned to help me get by until I had solid lines or only rubber at the trans cooler ( if you do not have fittings for solid lines at your cooler) was to get a good flare on the end of the steel line to help the hose from slipping off relying on a clamp to hold it in place. I also learned that if I do flare a line for this to make sure I file down the ridge to make sure there is no sharp edge to cut through the hose this sure helps when pressure is higher and you will feel more comfortable knwing the hose can not just slide off of the cooler line