Mojones915
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 16, 2018
- Location
- Saxapahaw
We spent the rest of Saturday just running around between Hammertown, Chocolate Thunder and the entrance to Sledge and Jack, coming back to check that nothing was coming loose. Sunday morning we got up and pre-ran the qualifying course on Chocolate Thunder. I ran up the left line at the start over the 2 ledges and one shotted it. The day and night before I watched everyone struggle with cutting across and getting around the pinch rock so decided it was not our ideal path. We came back to Hammertown and loaded up some more snack and water and started to head out to Spooners to pre-run some rocks. I stopped by Matt Walravens pit, and the first thing someone said when we pulled up was "I smell ATF".
We climbed out of the jeep and sure enough it was pooled up in the belly skid and starting to run out. We pulled the skids off and it was soaked underneath. Eventually we traced the leak back to the hose clamped on the hard line out of the trans. We spent about 2 hours wandering Hammertown looking for a flaring tool and getting it back together. At this point I was almost covered head to toe in ATF from laying under the jeep. I brake cleaned it the best I could and fired it up to test for leaks. My co-driver immediately yelled for me to shut it off because, in his words "It is like a fountain under there". Eventually we found that when working the hose over the flare I had cut one of the lines. A little trim off the end and we had the leak resolved.
We climbed out of the jeep and sure enough it was pooled up in the belly skid and starting to run out. We pulled the skids off and it was soaked underneath. Eventually we traced the leak back to the hose clamped on the hard line out of the trans. We spent about 2 hours wandering Hammertown looking for a flaring tool and getting it back together. At this point I was almost covered head to toe in ATF from laying under the jeep. I brake cleaned it the best I could and fired it up to test for leaks. My co-driver immediately yelled for me to shut it off because, in his words "It is like a fountain under there". Eventually we found that when working the hose over the flare I had cut one of the lines. A little trim off the end and we had the leak resolved.