My 2000 Grand Caravan is only sporadically leaving some drops of transmission fluid on the garage floor. It has gone weeks without dropping any oil and then the other a small drop appeared again. Amount of fluid on the floor is very small, a drop or two usually. Any comments on the intermittent nature of this?
John Keith snipped-for-privacy@juno.com
Our crystal balls are all in the shop for repair. You might want to crawl under there and look for wet areas. Likely culprits: Pan gasket, a shaft seal, or a tranny cooler hose connection.
Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my adddress with the letter 'x')
I've seen the trans cooler hoses leak intermittently. Sometimes you can tighten the connection if the leak is at the trans case, but if it is leaking from the compression fitting where the rubber is joined to the steel, then most times the hose needs replacement.
Do like Bill suggested and crawl under and look for the source. Most likely something simple to fix once you find it.
Bob
Thanks for the tips both to the group and directly to me. I'll follow-up.
John Keith snipped-for-privacy@juno.com
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