Rangerous-Steve
New Member
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2013
- Messages
- 4
- Vehicle Year
- 2000
- Transmission
- Automatic
Hello Ranger Station Users,
I've been dealing with a myriad of problems with my 2000 XLT Sport 2WD 3.0 Flex Fuel. About a month ago I was driving to the gas station and it just suddenly lost a lot of power, I crawled up the hill at about 20mph full throttle. Got to the station and it was overheating like crazy, this pinkish choco-milk substance was coming it. It had overheated once before a few weeks before this, I did a flush and it was fine, but at the same time I noticed my transmission was acting pretty naughty too, it was running low on fluid and thus slipping until I would top off the fluid, then it shifted perfectly. So I let the truck cool off for about half an hour, then tried to drive home a mile away, and that's when I saw all this smoke coming out from under the hood, and I covered the road in my pink chocolate milkshake goodness. Blew my lower radiator hose.
I got the car at home now and my first assumption is that the radiator is bad. I just took it out, and I know how much the replacement will cost. My question is, is the problem in the actual radiator, or could it possibly be in the trans cooler in front of it? I just want to be able to replace the right part and get this truck moving again. I don't know if there are any tests I could conduct to make sure the radiator is the issue for certain. Once I do replace whatever I replace though, I'm going to do a thorough coolant flush and then flush the transmission.
Thoughts, opinions, anything would be very helpful.
Thank you,
-Steve
I've been dealing with a myriad of problems with my 2000 XLT Sport 2WD 3.0 Flex Fuel. About a month ago I was driving to the gas station and it just suddenly lost a lot of power, I crawled up the hill at about 20mph full throttle. Got to the station and it was overheating like crazy, this pinkish choco-milk substance was coming it. It had overheated once before a few weeks before this, I did a flush and it was fine, but at the same time I noticed my transmission was acting pretty naughty too, it was running low on fluid and thus slipping until I would top off the fluid, then it shifted perfectly. So I let the truck cool off for about half an hour, then tried to drive home a mile away, and that's when I saw all this smoke coming out from under the hood, and I covered the road in my pink chocolate milkshake goodness. Blew my lower radiator hose.
I got the car at home now and my first assumption is that the radiator is bad. I just took it out, and I know how much the replacement will cost. My question is, is the problem in the actual radiator, or could it possibly be in the trans cooler in front of it? I just want to be able to replace the right part and get this truck moving again. I don't know if there are any tests I could conduct to make sure the radiator is the issue for certain. Once I do replace whatever I replace though, I'm going to do a thorough coolant flush and then flush the transmission.
Thoughts, opinions, anything would be very helpful.
Thank you,
-Steve