Uh oh here we go! Green fluid

[Tommyd]

off-roading a steep trail the other day and smelled something sweet. Couldn’t find any leaks until I crawled u see this evening and found this. Right around the transmission this is. One little line of fluid. I’m guessing antifreeze?

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[JTL21]

Most likely without being able to trace it to the source. Usually the sweet smell gives it away.

 

[SKJeep]

The coolant is a orange-violet color not green in all JL and JT vehicles.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Feel it - is it perhaps a grease flung out from that joint?
It's not antifreeze and it doesn't look much like transmission fluid.

 

[Tommyd]

The coolant is a orange-violet color not green in all JL and JT vehicles.

What would you assume it would be then?

 

[Tommyd]

Feel it - is it perhaps a grease flung out from that joint?
It's not antifreeze and it doesn't look much like transmission fluid.

It is a little on the gooey side. It’s hard to reach up in there. What would cause it? And what joint would have grease in it like that? Thank you

 

[Jteakus]

Look at your driveshaft boot.

 

[whysoserious]

+1 for slingin' grease.

 

[whysoserious]

What's the little goop where the arrow points?

 

[Sweetums]

That's way too thick to be coolant, I agree that it's likely grease being flung out of the driveshaft joint. It's the right color, consistency, and location for that.

 

[KevinC]

Do you have a lift? Steep hill could have put the driveshaft at an angle like a lift kit will do and caused grease to slowly exit the boot. The pic you posted shows what looks like grease that has been there a while, not new.

 

[PBCounty]

Possibly something organic (plant, reptile or insect based) you picked up on the trail? In South Florida we pick up all kinds of stuff in the swamp / flats.

 

[Tommyd]

Do you have a lift? Steep hill could have put the driveshaft at an angle like a lift kit will do and caused grease to slowly exit the boot. The pic you posted shows what looks like grease that has been there a while, not new.

Yeah a Clayton 2.5 which is really a 3.5. Pretty extreme I think

 

[Tommyd]

Possibly something organic (plant, reptile or insect based) you picked up on the trail? In South Florida we pick up all kinds of stuff in the swamp / flats.

Well I think I smelled it burning on the exhaust. But not so much up here in north ga

 

[Tommyd]

What's the little goop where the arrow points?

I will check good catch

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