Nice! It is nice to see good clean air, we have not had much of that this year again.

Looks impressive looking toward the mountains from the flats

 

Okay, one question...and l'm not really sure if l want to know the answer or not...lol...but which one of you feels the need to wear bunny ears while pumping fuel?

Great pictures, though. Most get mighty tiresome looking at one beautiful spot after another. Thanks, for sharing.

Brian.

 

I certainly don't feel the need to wear bunny ears.. ever

Lol! Happy to share pics of rad places that everyone should see with their own eyes.. Get out and drive!

 

Spent most of the day yesterday under MagPie dealing with a fairly heavy tcase leak. Took a lot more time than i thought it would simply because some jerk back in the 90's in England (probably while drinking tea, eating crumpets and making their teeth even more gross) thought it would be a good idea to place the flange of the DP/Cats to exhaust directly below where one of the bolts was to be removed from the service cover on the tcase. Literally, if the flange was a 1/2" either way it would have been no big deal. Naturally said bolt stripped and I had to summon the fury and magical lure of a hammer and vice grip to get it off. Bleh.

Cleaned up the cover plate, it seemed that someone had been in there before because of the use of liquid gasket but i'm not sure. It looked fairly thin and certainly came off incredibly easy so i'm hoping this was the reasoning of the leak. Used the black gasket maker and made a nice thick bead and reinstalled with all new hardware with blue loctight.

Just gotta add fluid now and hopefully that stopped the leak..









Looks aight in there

 

But...how are you going to know when the fluid is low...now?

Looks good though.

Brian.

 

Well, if it starts leaking again i'll know to check the level more often

 

Sure you get the easy leak, mine is leaking high up, I am not sure I can get to it easily.

 

Well, to be honest -- i just kinda assumed it was that panel thing. My leak could be up top just like yours. In doing research, it seemed that the panel is a very common place for the tcase to leak so i just did that. I would imagine i'd have to do it eventually, so why not start there

 

Went on a trip to Estes Park yesterday with the Wifey (and pooch!) for fun and to test out if my tcase fix worked. Well, it didn't Saw some drips within about 50miles of driving on the cross bar which is annoying. Havent had a chance to get under and inspect but what a bugger.

Should the bolts have been installed with some gasket sealant rather than blue locktite? I gotta check the vent tube as well, since apparently if that is clogged it can cause leaks from over pressurization. It is defo leaking on the front side of the case and not towards the rear of the truck







Inline tstat is workin well

 

Pics of leaking case.. Looks like to me that the leak is coming from between the tcase and the tranny Noticed some darker oil besides the fresh gear oil but it wasnt red like tranny fluid.. Output seal from tranny?





This also happened



I shall explain more tomorrow -- i certainly got my sign from Jeff Foxworthy today.