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A couple months ago I cracked one of the transmission cooler lines, and drove at least a few miles with it leaking quite steadily. You know how if you turn on the kitchen faucet just to the point where it stops dripping and starts running in a thin continuous stream? It was leaking like that... for at least a couple miles (not sure how long before I found it, but ~3 miles after), and I could see the trail on the road for a couple days afterward. In the course of changing the lines, I dumped at least a quart or two of ATF (~1-2 inches deep in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket).
I went and bought several gallons of ATF, figuring that I had leaked quite a bit. I put back in exactly 1 gallon of ATF and it was reading full on the dipstick again. I've driven it around, in case there was a bubble or something that needed to settle out. I've checked it several times since, and it still reads full.
I just don't know how it could have leaked so little. Has anyone ever had the dipstick reading be significantly off, or had any other issue that caused it to be very wrong?
I went and bought several gallons of ATF, figuring that I had leaked quite a bit. I put back in exactly 1 gallon of ATF and it was reading full on the dipstick again. I've driven it around, in case there was a bubble or something that needed to settle out. I've checked it several times since, and it still reads full.
I just don't know how it could have leaked so little. Has anyone ever had the dipstick reading be significantly off, or had any other issue that caused it to be very wrong?