Leaking issues in my 200 4R - any gurus available?

Mopar to ya said

The smoke is because it drips directly onto the H pipe behind the headers. The fluid is clean and not burnt. I use Amsoil synthetic fluid and it looks like it just came out of the bottle. The filter was new last year and I changed the 'top hat' seal for the filter at that time. Doesn't mean it couldn't have failed, but it would seem unusual for it to happen all of a sudden. Then again, this whole thing is unusual. They are now calling for rain tomorrow, so I probably won't drive it into work to install the cooler. Maybe I'll lay on my back and do it at home, but I really don't see that happening.

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Yep, I know how that goes.

The smoke from the pipes could be just from the fluid pushing out and not from the trans being hot was my point.
I didn't know if you knew it was a possibility instead of thinking it was hot and that was why it was pushing fluid and smoking off the pipes.
Kinda like the, did the car overheat and THEN coolant blew out, or did the coolant get pushed out and THEN it overheated? question. :D


You know people with computers tell me all the time that "It worked fine until this happened" and I tell them if they have ever gone out and gotten in their car and the battery was dead, it's kind of the same thing.
Almost everything works fine until it doesn't. :D