Someone at Chrysler transmission assembly plant sure messed this one up.
When I did a cooler line ATF exchange over two years ago I did notice a very small wetness on the ATF pan. Well, that recently developed into a small leak. Enough to stain my garage floor.
During the pan removal, once the bolts were loosened a bit, ATF started to leak and the pan dropped without any signs of being adhered by the RTV. To me it looked like the RTV was applied and let sit over an extended period of time, instead of being installed on the transmission. I used a regular gasket on this instead of RTV, since it came with the ATF filter and I hate removing old RTV, which was the most time consuming in this whole process. So hopefully that wasn't a mistake on my part.
On the plus side, I did get to change the ATF filter and clean the magnet, which had a usual amount of break-in, gray sludge.
When I did a cooler line ATF exchange over two years ago I did notice a very small wetness on the ATF pan. Well, that recently developed into a small leak. Enough to stain my garage floor.
During the pan removal, once the bolts were loosened a bit, ATF started to leak and the pan dropped without any signs of being adhered by the RTV. To me it looked like the RTV was applied and let sit over an extended period of time, instead of being installed on the transmission. I used a regular gasket on this instead of RTV, since it came with the ATF filter and I hate removing old RTV, which was the most time consuming in this whole process. So hopefully that wasn't a mistake on my part.
On the plus side, I did get to change the ATF filter and clean the magnet, which had a usual amount of break-in, gray sludge.