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I checked and see he updated:One of the members on ranger5g already has his in the shop for the trans....the techs are waiting to get "permission" from Ford to dive into it. See it here: https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/first-ranger-in-the-shop.1609/
After running the truck on the lift for a long time, it wouldn't leak (which always happens, it seems like). They finally shut the truck off and it started pouring coolant so they were able to trace it to the heater core. It was taking the weirdest route that everybody had missed it until they got Ford approval to really heat the truck up. It wasn't coming out of that hole at all, but it was a Houdini leak that nobody had seen yet. FMC is FedEx'ing a new heater core from Detroit and we hope to have it by the end of the week.