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Old 08-23-2019, 06:12 PM
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Did you check brake fluid, power steering and windshield washer fluid levels?
Wasn’t windshield fluid but did check. Did check everything else as well and didn’t see any leaks coming from those areas.
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Old 08-24-2019, 12:56 PM
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Does the power steering work normally and is brake pedal travel normal? If you press and hold the brake pedal with the engine running does it fade? It's not unusual that the exit point of a leak is misleading. Only other source of "massive" leak would be transmission. Suggest removing fill plug and seeing if small stream of fluid runs out. Transmission fluid should be at operating temp. When you say massive leak does that mean a big puddle on the ground as well as on the bottom of the vehicle and wheel well?
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Does the power steering work normally and is brake pedal travel normal? If you press and hold the brake pedal with the engine running does it fade? It's not unusual that the exit point of a leak is misleading. Only other source of "massive" leak would be transmission. Suggest removing fill plug and seeing if small stream of fluid runs out. Transmission fluid should be at operating temp. When you say massive leak does that mean a big puddle on the ground as well as on the bottom of the vehicle and wheel well?
Power steering and brake fluid is fine and not seeing anything coming from those areas. No fading of brakes. There’s nothing in that area in the wheel well that’s transmission related so don’t think it’s transmission. The biggest puddle was about 6” wide and a few 3” and one near the front and rear about 1”. The bigger ones were all coming from the runners and had fluid along that whole side to the rear and me being on a slope would make sense those being bigger. Nothing in that area with fluids. I’ll see if I can attack a photo later
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Johnny, I found my power steering cooler which sits in front of the radiator had a leak at the elbow (passenger side). Fluid was brownish. It looked like it was dripping down the radiator. You have to remove the plastic cover to get an idea of where it is coming from but you won’t be able to see where it is leaking from.


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