thanks, sorry to hear about your luck.....it happens more often then people realize.

love the name! family guy rules.

This is a very common problem affecting sebrings, caravans, neons and some others that year. Transmissions with a certain build date had this problem...sometimes it would trigger an engine light but not all the time. The Chrysler bulletin recommends replacing the low/reverse accumulator cover and o-ring in the transmission to fix the problem, not the easiest task.

There all basically the same links. Impact gun on the nut and a good pair of vice grips on the other side to remove them.

These are a pain to do! can't beleive they make you take apart the entire door for the handles, good write up though.

Great write-up! I just did one on a 3.3, pretty well the same. The pump is a bit awkward to shimmy out but a bit of patience gets the job done. The bolts on the pumps are 10mm and the pulley was 15mm or 13mm....can't remember, three of em. The torque recommendations were about 100 inch pounds for the pump and around 200 for the pully. I use a razor blade to carefully clean off the housing, then some cleaner before installing a new one.

Ya, I like the current gen caravan's too. The previous ones had a few bugs that seemed to be fixed. The power steering pumps were known to leak in the older ones. A gasket may be all they need but generally when somethings leaking they tend to recommend an entire part change too...

Ya like val said the sway bar bushings were nortorious on those vans. They also had a problem with sway bar links too.