philip_g
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- back in CO
2000 XJ, AW4
Was towing a little 14' boat crammed with camping gear and the back of the jeep crammed full of gear and a heavy cooler, climbing this stupid little pass
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...47,-106.781445&spn=0.047867,0.077162&t=p&z=14
(starts at 7,000ft and runs to about 9600' if you follow the lines)
I blew something, I was towing in third doing about 35-40 up the hill and got to the top and started smoking, looked under the XJ and was dripping some oil and had run back on the exhaust. On a few other passes coming home it smoked a little too.
I don't know if it's oil or ATF fluid, it's all dirty, it blew enough out to coat the boat and the back of the jeep pretty good.
Oil level and pressure are normal, anything above idle indicates 40PSI, the level is a tick high, I added some before I left and over did it a little.
ATF level is OK, towards the bottom of the scale and red, not burnt
transmission shifts as always, has a little high whine just before it shifts but I think it always has
I have a drip pan down so I can investigate the leaks, mostly it appears to be coming from between the transmission and the block.
I put a new rear main in a year ago, and it's been leaking around the oil filter adapter a little/moderate amount
Any ideas where to start looking?
never got hot BTW, ran at 210 or just one tick past 210, not enough to make me pucker.
Was towing a little 14' boat crammed with camping gear and the back of the jeep crammed full of gear and a heavy cooler, climbing this stupid little pass
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...47,-106.781445&spn=0.047867,0.077162&t=p&z=14
(starts at 7,000ft and runs to about 9600' if you follow the lines)
I blew something, I was towing in third doing about 35-40 up the hill and got to the top and started smoking, looked under the XJ and was dripping some oil and had run back on the exhaust. On a few other passes coming home it smoked a little too.
I don't know if it's oil or ATF fluid, it's all dirty, it blew enough out to coat the boat and the back of the jeep pretty good.
Oil level and pressure are normal, anything above idle indicates 40PSI, the level is a tick high, I added some before I left and over did it a little.
ATF level is OK, towards the bottom of the scale and red, not burnt
transmission shifts as always, has a little high whine just before it shifts but I think it always has
I have a drip pan down so I can investigate the leaks, mostly it appears to be coming from between the transmission and the block.
I put a new rear main in a year ago, and it's been leaking around the oil filter adapter a little/moderate amount
Any ideas where to start looking?
never got hot BTW, ran at 210 or just one tick past 210, not enough to make me pucker.
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