My dishwasher pointed it out to me at work today. The leak is on the right side underneath the truck right above the skid plate. It is a red liquid which i discovered is all over the front right suspension area. When the truck runs at idle, there is liquid pouring down (kinda fast, like oil) onto a part of the chassis and is making a lake/puddle of the liquid there. Anyone experience this before or able to point me to the part(s) that would leak here? Maybe a cooler line or hole in radiator? Thanks!!!!!!

 

check your trany lines cooler lines. no oil is coming out of your trany??? do NOT drive till fixed or it'll be big bucks!!!!!! bubba

 

Did not see any other leaks anywhere else on the truck. Oil level and tranny fluid level are still fine (checked oil couple days ago). Is the tranny cooler lines the two metal lines from the right side of the radiator? Are these relatively easy fixes? I can't leave it parked at my workplace for too long.

EDIT: The reservoir was low, but still had coolant in it so i figured radiator was still full so i went and drove it home anyway (i know, bad idea). Drove straight to my house which is only two miles away at best. No odd smells, ran just fine.

 

Okay, so i removed the skid plate today and i was able to locate the source of the leak. There are two metal lines next to the fan when you are looking at the engine and the leak is from the lower of the two lines. I'm guessing that the hole is very small since the stream is very small plus i can't feel an obvious hole when i put my finger there, but it is a fast powerful stream nonetheless. It looks to be in contact with a bolt, i dunno if it's supposed to or not nor do i know if that bold contact caused the leak but a lot of questions come to mind. Can anyone tell me for sure what these lines are? I assume they are the tranny cooler lines. Is this line supposed to be close to the bolt like this? Is this an easy thing to replace yourself? What is the cost of this part(s)? Or how long would it take for a shop to do it for me?