Long story short.
Hit a deer, coolant leak from a hole on the bottom of the rad. Managed to drive it to a truck stop as the last of the coolant was leaving the reservoir.
All the coolant leaked out through the rad, I ended up patching the hole with JB and refilled with distilled water, no water was leaking I thought I was in good shape.
Ran truck for about 10 minutes and shut it down. waited about 5 hours to cool. Topped coolant off again as I assumed it was getting air out of the block or something.
Noticed that the res was empty today, poured in about 2 gallons to bring it up to min line.
Now I have coolant leaking from the bottom of the transmission. Looks like its coming from inside the transmission?
I have the bunk cores and interior core valves turned off, they were off during the deer strike.
Now the leak is pretty fast, I need to get it 370 miles to my mechanic that was going to replace the rad. But I don't think I can drive it like this?
Cat C15 + eaton 13, coolant leaking from transmission?
Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by Joeziah, May 29, 2022.
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AModelCat Thanks this.
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I suspect if I pulled that plug it would belch coolant though, I'm thinking the impact of the deer must have caused the tranny oil cooler to fail. I was seeing some nasty oil like stuff but I thought it was just the CAT ELC mixing with water. Now I suspect it was the transmission oil. Deer was centered and went under the truck so maybe it did more damage than I thought.
Guess I'm not going to get away without having it towed. I have zero experience with transmission coolers, much less one that appears to be internal. -
Roger McG Thanks this.
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Update, tranny full of coolant, everything points to a breached oil cooler and there must be a breather that it started leaking out of.
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If the transmission oil cooler has coolant lines in and out, and transmission oil in and out. the transmission cooler is junk filling your transmission with coolant. Replace that cooler with a heat exchanger cooler
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Roger McG Thanks this.
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The oil to coolant ones do have an advantage though if you're up in the north where it routinely hits 30 below or colder. Keeps the oil flowing easier.
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