Re: 45RFE Ouch!

From: Dave & Charlene (DOHCTurboIII@Sympatico.ca)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 10:11:10 EDT


>
> 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.

Long as he didn't try driving it when it started to slip he'll be fine.

                         Dave St.Louis
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