how have some of you hooked up your tranny coolers. My truck has the small one in front of the radiator and then goes to the one in the end of the radiator. I want to bypass both and just use the new B&M cooler with the electric fan on it. i just need to know if you ran new lines from the tranny to the cooler or just clamped hoses to the stock lines. thanks in advance

 

Just use the stock lines. Get some plugs for the radiator and replace the stock cooler with your B&M.

 

I just cut the line coming outta the radiator going to the stock heat exchanger where the rubber was and put a double male 3/8 with hose clamps to hold it together. I then cut the line going from the stock heat exchanger to the trans and did the same thing. I can take pics later mabye if ya like. But I didnt bypass the radiator.

 

thanks to both of you thats what i was thinkn about doing but just thought i would check to see what other people had done

 

Didn't need any aftermarket lines, just 2 inverted flare to -6AN adapters, 2 -6AN tubing nuts/collars, and one 90deg -6AN fitting. Made two bends with a handheld bender (one 25deg inlet side, one 90deg outlet side); next cut off the factory ends; then flared them to 37deg, done, call it good. Turned out super clean and here's what I did:

view from the front:


inlet:


outlet:




side view of hard line routing(clean):

 

Nice install. Mines pretty clean but I didnt use the hardline like you did.

 

What size/brand cooler is that? So if I wanted to do the same all I would need is (just 2 inverted flare to -6AN adapters, 2 -6AN tubing nuts/collars, and one 90deg -6AN fitting)? Where would I get these fittings?

 

diggin this one up so i can get a response to that as well......

these rubber hoses with clamps didn't hold up for ****

 

its a tru cool heat exchanger
I bought the fittings from the Parker store