Mark Hofmann wrote to All:

 MH> I took a look at the Durango power steering leak today.  Had my wife
 MH> turn the steering wheel while the truck was running and I took a peep
 MH> at the lines.

 MH> It does in fact have a decent leak on the high pressure line.  Just
 MH> in a few minutes of running, it left a small puddle from the area
 MH> that it was leaking.

 MH> I might order the stuff this week and will wait for a decent weekend
 MH> to install the new lines.  It will probably take a few hours and it
 MH> has been in the 30s here lately - not exactly prime outside car
 MH> working weather.

 MH> I would do it in my garage, but this will be too messy of a job for
 MH> that.

Might as well get it done so you can drop the trans-pan while you're in
the garage.

 MH> The other thing is the dredded P0740 code that has re-appeared.  I am
 MH> going to give it some more time and see of the stop-slip stuff can
 MH> fix this issue.  More than likely, it will need a transmission
 MH> rebuild.

 MH> Part of the issue is the mileage and age and having the radiator
 MH> failure where the antifreeze got into the tramission certainly didn't
 MH> help.  The truck has 155k on it.

 MH> The TCC seems to be having an issue.  Overdrive not kicking in or not
 MH> kicking in all the time.  A total rebuild with warranty will be
 MH> around $2k - just like it was for my Monte.

You might want to drop the trans-pan and check out the TCC lockup solinoid
first. If the trans isn't slipping internally, but its not locking up the
converter, then it could be that the antifreeze has affected the free
movement of that solinoid, which would make lockup impossible or
intermitant. That's a lot cheaper to fix than rebuilding the trans.


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