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- The perfect is the enemy of the good.
So after I put in the new rad I saw the trans cooler lines leaking slightly and quite sure it's not the trans cooler line fitting it's where the larger fitting goes into the rad. So I tightened them up a little. I think I still get a slight amount of seepage. It's really small, but what I'm doing is running/driving it then checking with my finger or clean paper towel. If I see anything at all then obviously I know what's going on. It's not like drips or runs it's just a little bit.
Here's my options:
1. Run it a while, keep checking it, and see if it goes away. I suspect it will.
2. If it continues to show any seepage, and I don't feel like I can go any tighter, take out the fitting on the rad and put thread tape. I don't like to take apart the other fitting if I don't really have to because right now it's not leaking at those so I'd rather leave well enough alone.
Am I making sense here? Has anyone else come up against this?
Here's my options:
1. Run it a while, keep checking it, and see if it goes away. I suspect it will.
2. If it continues to show any seepage, and I don't feel like I can go any tighter, take out the fitting on the rad and put thread tape. I don't like to take apart the other fitting if I don't really have to because right now it's not leaking at those so I'd rather leave well enough alone.
Am I making sense here? Has anyone else come up against this?