pearlpower

I am sure I already know the answer to this judging by the looks of it. Transmission cooler line from the front top cooler to the rear over the exhaust is leaking. Appears the only way to remove it is to drop the cross member , and move the PS pump which I would hate to do as it already has new mounts and rack. Anyone able to finagle this thing out? Trick other then turn the car upside down which I am almost prepared to do.
Most likely I will just cut the line in the middle and have the hose shop put a coupler in the middle.
thanks

borland

You should not have to drop the crossmember.

To remove it, just disconnect the O2 sensor, drop the exhaust system, exhaust shields, cooler pipe mounting brackets (assessible from below), disconnect the pipe at mid-TT and at the cooler. Snake the pipe back toward the rear.

I would buy the hose from Porsche, but you could also cut off the ferrules and reutilize the barbs and install a new hose with a common hose clamp.

borland

It's been awhile since I crawled under there....Maybe dropping the exhaust and shields is unnecessary. Just depends on where the unions are along the body underside aft of the engine.

pearlpower

Thanks, but I see of no way it is coming out as it feeds through the little space above the crossmember where the bracket from the engine mount attaches to the body. About 1.5" of room in there and the line has many bends on it.

borland

Borrowing some photos from John Pirtle's web site. Looks like what you describe, but still looks do-able.
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with the crossmember removed....

pearlpower

Thanks. I ended up cutting the line. As you can see by the pic there is no way that was coming out without dropping the cross member and moving the PS pump.
I will have the hose shop put in a new coupler where the cuts are along with the new hose. This way I can be assured it will hold up down there with the heat from the manifolds.

pearlpower

One more pic of the entire thing.

Mrmerlin

Pearl if you can use a dremel cut off wheel you could have removed the swaged hose clamps and replaced the hose with new hose and a few screw clamps, this is usually how we repair lines in the car, also how to fix the lines where they meet the transaxle, instead of replacing/removing the whole hard line

Mrmerlin

this same proceedure can also be used to replace the short PS hose to the resivour, that is swaged to the hard line

michael j wright

Pearl, there is so little PSI on these lines that you can just put a hose and a few screw clamps on,and be done.