So yesterday I was selecting my gear box into drive but it kind fought me it was harder to pull back than normal. As it went in to drive I felt a clunk so I got home and checked the tranny fluid, the level was ok, but it was "nesquik strawberry milk color" i had some dexron so I threw it in there. I went to select gear this morning and it was fine, but when I got to skool I checked the dipstick again same color. I looked to see if my radiator fluid was a different color but it was the same............... Now I just want to know why is the fluid that color if it doesnt seem to be mixing with any others??????????

 

what color is your antifreeze? green, right? do you mean that your trans fluid is milky in color (instead of translucent)? it's perhaps possible that your radiator's got a crack in the lower tank and is leaking antifreeze into your a/t cooler.... dunno if that would cause it to get milky or exactly what it would cause it to look like. i'm also not sure if the a/t cooler is at more or less PSI than the radiator (13psi)

 

Yea my antifreeze green(when I said a i was seeing if it was a diff color i would have thought that tranny fluid would have got in there and changed it from green) and yea the tranny fluid is pinkish milky color, and that's what i was thinking that something cracked at was leaking fluid elsewhere...... what would I need to change a/t cooler or radiator?

 

a/t cooler is built into the bottom of the radiator. first just do a full fluid change on your tranny and see if that solves the issue. if it starts out clean but gets milky again, then you will need to look into getting a new radiator if that turns out to be the issue. as a test, perhaps mix some antifreeze w/ a/t fluid in a dish and see if that's the sort of color/milkyness you're seeing in the trans fluid.

 

NEW RADIATOR i keep changing 1 thing after another Ok il do that mix when I get a chance, im gunna do that a/t tranny fluid flush and just wondering if coolant is getting into transmission is it damaging anything???

 

well i'm sure it's not helping anything. it's a crappy lubricant, it has different temperature/pressure properties, and it isn't the same viscosity as ATF... so the sooner the problem (if it does end up being that) is fixed the better

 

kool imma be on it