Okay, so I've got an issue. I recently put the motor back in my car after a rebuild and cam change and it's come time to start hooking everything up again. The motor's back in the car, and runs, so I added the fluids. First off, I've got a leak somewhere in the front passenger side area. When I looked at it it appeared that the tranny fluid and coolant had somehow mixed. I'm talking red, smells like tranny fluid with water floating in the mix. What I'm wondering is if I had the lines hooked up right.


First image: This is my setup. You can see the two transmission lines running to the radiator. The bottom line joins to a black rubber hose going to my B&M supercooler, the second black hose (the looped one) comes back from the cooler and into the bottom of the radiator.


Second image: Both transmission lines. The top line connects to a rubber hose going to the top of the radiator that connected below the radiator filler neck.


Not the best pic, but shows the radiator neck area. You can see where the hose connects the tranny line to the radiator right above the + terminal of the battery. The hose is the third one down from the filler neck.

So are these transmission lines properly routed? If not, where do they need to go? If they are right, what else could possibly be the problem?

Honestly I'm kind of pumped to get the car going again (it's been 2 years) and this has kinda got me down as I can't seem to figure out what it is.

 

The only transmission cooler connections on the radiator are threaded for tapered fittings. If you put a hose from the transmission on the non-thread port below the radiator cap, you just sent coolant into your transmission and transmission fluid into your radiator. The hose port below the radiator cap is for the steam pipe. Coolant in the transmission will probably ruin it.

 

...you better hook those lines up correctly and flush your trans and flush your cooling system..

 

So the pipe below the fill neck I'm referring to is the steam pipe? I know one is for the recovery tank, another is the steam pipe, and another should be for tranny fluid to run to the stock cooler correct? Honestly I'm basing that assumption just on the fact that the hose from it fell just right to hook up to one of the tranny lines.

I know my bottom fitting are correct as they had the tapered fittings that came with the b&m kit when I installed it ages ago. I'm thinking the problem
has to lie somewhere up top.

I'll have to take a good look at it later now that I've cooled down a bit. I'll probably pull the tranny pan to see if any coolant got in there. The Dioscuri was showing it empty, despite filling it so I'm assuming it all mixed in with the coolant, not quite sure coolant got to the tranny.

 

The pipe in the neck goes to the remote reservoir. The pipe below it goes to the steam pipe (via the TB if you have not done the TB bypass).

 

Yeah, I've got those two in place, but below them I have another pipe which I'm thinking is to the tranny cooler in the radiator correct?

 

Found the problem. The line to the b&m cooler busted at the fitting and the split was hidden. The coolant cam from some overflow trapped somewhere that dripped out when I raised the lift. The connects were alright so I just clipped the busted portion off the line and reattached it, should fix the problem.

Thanks guys