I have been slightly leaking an oil like substance from both of these two hoses underneath the front end of my 4.0 for a couple of days now. I believe the lower one is power steering and the other hooks up to my oil pan. When I replace the hosing I wanted to make sure neither are vacuum lines or anything like that. And when I cut either off, is it going to leak all the fluid out? Sorry, but I'm having trouble uploading the pictures

 

Hmm. Mine was leaking Power Steering until i changed the hose but both of those went from the power steering pump to the steering box. Anyway when I changed those I didnt have much fluid leaking out. I dont know if that is any help or not.

 

I don't think it is the same

 

if you have an automatic tranny those are your tranny cooler lines

 

They both actually hook to the front left (side of the jeep) side of the radiator and follow down and back to the opil pan area.

 

those are the tranny cooler lines

 

Would that be what that is then if its connected to the radiator?

 

Nice...so are they going to leak out alot of the fluid if i cut them and replace the hose?

 

yep

 

Not sure if this is related, but I've been having a loud humming noise coming from underneath the jeep everytime I'm at about half throttle from 55mph to about 65mph and then again at around 75 and up?

 

no,you will need to flare the ends though if you cut the metal tube,if not it will still leak

 

check your u-joints

 

I was planning on cutting off the existing brackets, slipping the new hose over the metal lines and clamp them down with screw clamps

 

I actually did earlier and they seem to be fine...nice and tight

 

Although it did seem to maybe be coming from the driveshaft