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97 4.0 tranny fluid looks like strawberry milk

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Old Dec 12, 2018
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97 4.0 tranny fluid looks like strawberry milk

My truck starts but once it warms up it won’t go into any gear or it won’t drive at all unless I shut it down and cools down
 
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Old Dec 12, 2018
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Check coolant, you may have a trans cooler leak, so coolant is getting in the ATF and vice versa

Coolant can't take the heat in a transmission so changes to vapor, and all automatic run on fluid pressure, not vapor pressure, so no go
 
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