Hi,

This is my first post on this forum. I need some help and I thought this was the place to ask.

I have a small pin size hole in one of my transmission cooler lines. I want to replace both the lines. These are the two lines that come out of the tranny cooler and go back. The are rubber molded to a metal line and then rubber again molded to metal--all one piece. And both the hoses are like this.

I called Napa and they don't have it. I called the Dodge dealer parts counter and that part isn't made any longer!! He said I would have to fabricate it. I don't have the time. Does someone here know of a place that sells these new hoses? I don't want to buy used from a junk yard.

I appreciate any help!

Thanks,
Jim

 

Jim welcome to the site there is allot of good info here. Fill out your sig in the user cp so we all know what your working on.

As far as the trans lines I would say just replace them with rubber as long as it will not be by the exhaust where it would melt. That will probably be the cheapest and easiest way out.

Ryan

 

Anywhere that makes hydraulic lines should be able to make you some up if they have the old ones to go buy.

 

thats how the hoses for my after-market cooler got made.......

 

Thanks a lot for the help!

Ryan, I'll get my profile up-to-date soon. What I'll say now is that my other car is a 2001 VW Jetta TDI that gets 59mpg lifetime--that's with 138k miles. Every drop of diesel ever consumed by that car has been logged except the initial 10 gallons or so when I bought the car new

By the way: I live in Houston where it's as flat as a pancake

-Jim

 

If there is just a pin-hole in the metal part of the line, and you can get to it, you can just cut the line at the hole and use a compression fitting to put it back together. That is the cheapest way that you can do it yourself.
Other than JB Weld....

As stated above, you can have a new one made or have yours fixed at a supply place.

 

Thanks leper but it's in the bottom rubber piece.

I still can't believe they don't make those hoses. The truck isn't that old.

 

I fixed one of mine on the exhaust side with rubber line, so far no problems with it, if you had a 4" down pipe it would be too close, but a 3" down pipe has enough room so it won't get too hot.

Jim, the only rubber lines from the factory on these trucks is in the front. It should have a 2 metal tubes with a small piece of tubing between them right in the middle of the rubber lines. Is that where's its leaking? Or is it a rubber line thats leaking? I had to replace the rubber lines on mine already, I had to cut the aluminum crimps off and put new trans fluid rated hose on with hose clamps.

Same truck, I also had to pull the trans lines out and braze up the rubbed through spots. The amount of fluid it was leaking started getting ridiculous.

 

Thanks for the info Mike. Yes, it's the hoses in front. It's rubber coming out of the cooler and molds (or crimps) onto the metal almost vertical piece then rubber. I'll have to take another look but I think there's yet another metal piece and another rubber piece.

But I'll end up doing what mabchewey suggested and just have the hoses made.

Thanks,

Jim

 

If thats the case get some 1/2" transmission fluid rated line, I think it might 250psi rated. Its not a wire reenforced hose so you can use a lined hose clamp to clamp to the steel lines from the trans and hook it to the front cooler.
Thats what I did, the retard before me used a small piece of copper tubing, about 1/2" long and cut the hose, put the tubing in and used 1, yes 1 hose clamp right where the 2 hoses met. It blew apart on me coming back down my road on the test drive with my 47RH, 3 gallons of oil everywhere, under the hood, down the driver side, what a mess.

 

NAPA can "clamp" a new rubber hydraulic hose to your metal line. Forget what the name of that type of fitting is but like they mentioned earlier, just take it by and they'll make a new one for you.

When I added my cooler, I used new hoses but scabbed into the metal line at the trans where the OD sensor is to use for a temp sensor port.

 

Great!! Thanks a ton for the info!! This is a great site!

-Jim