Got a call today with good news that later turned bad and bad news that is still bad.

The ‘good’ news was that they fixed the oil cooler adapter oil leak and the found the real tranny leak. The oil cooler adapter leak is fixed and that is good. The tranny leak at first appeared to be from the dip stick tube but they fixed that with a larger/thicker O-ring. When they took the coach for a test drive it was still leaking transmission fluid from a tiny machined hole in the final drive right next to the dip stick. The ‘good’ news was that some RTV made the leak go away. I decided to pursue the reason for that tiny hole and was told by Manny and JimK that it was called a ‘seep’ hole and indicated that one of the two seals that keeps transmission fluid and 90-weight final drive oil separate is leaking. It is meant to be a warning sign. The recommendation from both Manny and JimK is to (again) remove the final drive and install new seals. That is definitely bad news.

The bad news was that the A/C compressor is actually bad. It turns nice and smoothly but it leaks really badly and needs to be replaced. The local A/C shop that Jared uses says that rebuilt versions of the old compressors are unreliable but JimK says that is practically all they use with no problems.

I called Jared with the news about the need to reseal the final drive and that JimK recommends using a rebuilt A/C compressor. He will call me tomorrow with a quote for doing all of this – and I though a rebuilt tranny was expensive.