[Craeshe]

UPDATE, 03/15/2016: I have successfully replaced the condenser, by myself i might add!! I drained the lines, replaced the condenser, re-vacuumed and re-pressurized it. Good as new! What what!!

Thank you to everyone for your help.
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UPDATE: Video posted in comments below.
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I have a small coolant leak at the junction of the Transmission cooler and the cooler lines. It leaks MAYBE a drop a day. I cannot even see any on my drive way. Based on the picture, where do you think the leak is. On the cooler or the cooler line assembly?


Chris

 

[s197gt]

A transmission leak would produce a red/brown colored oil leak.

Appears to me...you're talking about a refrigerant leak near the a/c condenser, and that would then be a green dye, put into the refrigerant system to help find a leak.

Within the a/c system would be a refrigerant (clear), and also a special oil, clear or pale brown/yellow. A dye is added when a slow leak is not found, yet the tech would want to help locate a leak for looking at the same system at a later date.

I would thoroughly clean the area with a rag used with a solvent, aerosol can of brake cleaner would do. Then watch it daily to determine if the leak is coming from where the two metal parts join...there's an O ring within, or if the condenser itself is cracked and leaking. Either way, to repair it, the a/c system needs to be opened, new condenser, or new 0 ring, then system vacuumed down and new refrigerant added.

If you don't use the a/c or expect it to work, then don't worry about this green oil residue.

If the a/c is still working, you can expect it to stop working down the road a ways...due to a leak.

 

[09v6]

That is definitely the AC system not tranny. Seems to me to be at the joint not the condenser, but as stated above, clean the problem area and keep an eye on it. Hard to spot a leak when it becomes a big mess like this. At this rate, you will have an AC problem by next summer. Seems to be leaking pretty bad.

 

[Craeshe]

Hey guys, perhaps and I am arrogant, but I thought that this was the coolant line for the transmission. The two lines run from the transmission into this smaller radiator. Is that not the coolant lines for the transmission?


Video attached. A mechanic friend said it was the tranny coolant line, could he be mistaken?


Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihygEkwR_Ls&feature=youtu.be

 

[Urambo Tauro]

Your description does not appear to match the visual. The text definitely sounds like a transmission cooler. But I'm seeing a green mess where the AC condenser attaches to the liquid line. That's not transmission fluid.

Follow your lines again and verify what is connected to what. The transmission has no business being plumbed to the AC system.

 

[09v6]

Unless that in fact IS the transmission lines but they have been made dirty by a leak from something else and is confusing the issue. That is why I hate a dirty engine bay. Makes it really hard to diagnose things. Clean up the mess and see what it really is.

 

[Craeshe]

UPDATE, 03/15/2016: I have successfully replaced the condenser, by myself i might add!! I drained the lines, replaced the condenser, re-vacuumed and re-pressurized it. Good as new! What what!! IDK what i was thinking about the tranny lines. I just confused myself.

Thank you to everyone for your help.

 

[09v6]

Glad it worked out!