Hi everyone, should have joined this a while back, but better late than never I hope. I have a 1994 Ranger, 4.0L Auto.
Multiple issues yesterday… was in 4wd heading up a mountain road and saw smoke from hood. Stopped, and saw significant fluid leak. Wasn’t the rad, seems to have been tranny fluid. Killed engine and leak stopped.
Then truck wouldn’t start. No power to starter when I tried. Tried in both park and neutral, nothing, not even a solenoid click. Eventually ran a jumper cable from positive batt terminal to starter and that worked. Limped it home, stopping every 10 min to check on leak, but it wasn’t leaking anymore (also, checked tranny fluid and it still seemed adequate). When I got home, after about 10 min noticed some spotting on driveway, so put a bucket under it and went to bed. In morning had about 1/4 cup of tranny fluid in bucket that seemed to be leaking from tranny pan gasket. Checked bolts and some were not very tight. Figured I’d pull pan, put in new gasket and filter. Got pan off, and found this in the bottom…. (pic below). I don’t know anything about auto transmissions but guessing this shouldn’t be there. Also no idea how or if this is related to my ignition issue, but the timing seems weird. Any ideas welcomed, thanks.
Multiple issues yesterday… was in 4wd heading up a mountain road and saw smoke from hood. Stopped, and saw significant fluid leak. Wasn’t the rad, seems to have been tranny fluid. Killed engine and leak stopped.
Then truck wouldn’t start. No power to starter when I tried. Tried in both park and neutral, nothing, not even a solenoid click. Eventually ran a jumper cable from positive batt terminal to starter and that worked. Limped it home, stopping every 10 min to check on leak, but it wasn’t leaking anymore (also, checked tranny fluid and it still seemed adequate). When I got home, after about 10 min noticed some spotting on driveway, so put a bucket under it and went to bed. In morning had about 1/4 cup of tranny fluid in bucket that seemed to be leaking from tranny pan gasket. Checked bolts and some were not very tight. Figured I’d pull pan, put in new gasket and filter. Got pan off, and found this in the bottom…. (pic below). I don’t know anything about auto transmissions but guessing this shouldn’t be there. Also no idea how or if this is related to my ignition issue, but the timing seems weird. Any ideas welcomed, thanks.