Date:         Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:47:38 -0800
Reply-To:     "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "Mudd \"Not Jack\" Sparrow" <rummaging@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: For those with automatic transmissions
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <006101d04cad$e4060f80$ac122e80$@gmail.com>
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Whatever you choose, I would ditch the stock transmission cooler in a heartbeat

Mine is automatic. 

I just remember when the stock cooler broke and I got coolant in my transmission. Super duper nightmare. Changed the fluid ten times to get the coolant out. Then just bypassed the the transmission so that coolant was isolated from the transmission.

Had no cooler for a long whole afterwards. 

Started with coolant hose but it would break from the pressure and or ATF oil. So then I ended up with something cobbled together using better hosing. Though I forget excellent what, as you have to have a u shape turn of the "hose" to do this.

But my transmission ran just fine afterwards.


> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:38 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> In preparation for my Subaru conversion, I need to upgrade the transmission,
> which means a better cooler, among other things.
> 
> 
> 
> Coolers range from the expensive FAS/Van Café heat sink ($300, approved by
> German Transaxle),
> http://www.van-cafe.com/home/van/page_1717_1011/automatic-transmission-coole
> r.html
> 
> to the equally expensive Go Westy thermostatically controlled finned tube
> external cooler ($300), http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4481
> <http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4481&category_id=&category_pa
> rent_id> &category_id=&category_parent_id= 
> 
> 
> 
> to a relatively cheap aftermarket finned tube cooler with no thermostat
> control for $169 from Small Car.
> http://www.smallcar.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view
> <http://www.smallcar.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=29877>
> &product_id=29877 
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone have experience with or thoughts about these options?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Stuart