If your friend shut the engine and trans down quickly, I would say the trans
is ok. he will find out as soon as he gets it fixed and drives it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mallett, Donald B <Donald.Mallett@BNSF.com>
To: 'DML' <dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:00 AM
Subject: DML: 45RFE Ouch!
>
> A buddy of mine here at work was driving home yesterday and hit a piece of
> road garbage. He thinks it was a piece of angle iron about a foot long. It
> ripped out a inch section of the tranny cooling line :-0 At 65mph this
> drained in tranny of ATF and soaked the bottom of his 2000 CC in no time
at
> all. He got a tow home. Today he's going to repair the cooling line. The
> question is; Would this cause any internal damage to the 45RFE by have its
> fluid of life sucked out of it like that? If he can find the filters this
AM
> he'll pull the pan and change them also.
>
>
> *-------------------------------Y2KOTA-------------------------------*
> Don Mallett
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