[Sienile]

That is coolant leaking. It's those cheap plastic Ys. Not fixing this soon could cause you to overheat and blow your head gaskets.

You can get 2 of the Dorman 47238HP and replace them with metal ones, or get the full heater hose assemblies which are Dorman 626-315HP.

 

[Sienile]

Well, since you are having transmission issues, it might be good to do a transmission fluid and filter change. There's no easy way to drain fluid on these unless you've installed a pan with a drain plug (Dorman makes one of those too.). You should do this every 60k miles. The manual says 120k for normal use, but so many people have failures starting as low as 80k without it. Jeepman has a thread about how to get a rough reading on your fluid using the oil dipstick.

A 62TE Dipstick Revisit- Based on 80F and 180F temperatures

I have looked at many, supposedly helpful/sometimes helpful Threads, Posts and YouTube videos about measuring the 62TE's transmission fluid level, and only noticed one so far, that talks about operating temperature, not max or beyond operating temperature, or for that matter, doing a measurement...

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