Hi CJ1,
On Sunday I had much the same problem, I had to move the auto gearbox radiator back a bit to fit a winch, in doing this I cut the metal pipes to the gearbox radiator and replaced them with flexible pipes and jubilee clipped them on.
Its been over a year since I fitted the flexi pipes so forgot to keep an eye on them because they've never been a problem. The other day though one pipe came off on a dual carriageway, oil everywhere and I smoked out the road from oil on the exhaust (luckily the road was clear). I pulled over straight away and called a recovery guy.
Not realizing the problem, the recovery guy asked if I could drive it up the ramp, it had to get to stupidly high revs to change into 1st (rev counter broken but I've never herd it rev so hard!). almost flew through the cab of the truck when it did engage the gear!!!
anyway, took it straight to a garage and this morning he says the gearbox is knackered, they've brimmed the oil but it still revs stupidly high before engaging 1st (apparently reverse is alright).
The garage said they can't do auto boxes and have offered to tow it to my house just down the road where I can try and sort something else out with it.
I'm hoping its just that there's something the garage have overlooked and that the gearbox isn't knackered (it hasn't made any crunching/whining sounds the whole time and has only driven up the recovery truck's ramp).
If I manage to sort mine out I'll let everyone here know, if you sort yours out though would you let me know?
Best of luck!!!
