xj9140
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Im doin this mod soon.
instead of leaving the cooler in the rad blank, I run my power steering thru it
It is more of a heat exchanger than cooler.
Im doin this mod soon.
instead of leaving the cooler in the rad blank, I run my power steering thru it
-on above post #79 on temp sender, what about turning it 180° so fluid is always touching sender probe? (I do think recommended/ best is probe to be in fluid flow)
my only concern would be the pump in the trans having to keep up with pushing a higher volume of fluid through the lines, not sure if that would be an issue or not.
I had a very large cooler on my setup as well, and had no issues with the -6 hookup. it stayed so cool I only had to flip the fan on when bogged down with the RPMs up to stay moving in really soft sand.
A guy that builds Transmissions for living once told me fluid flowing to fast through cooler does not have chance for heat transfer. Makes sense, not sure it apples to line size though
I'll second Overs TJ... consider fluid velocity. with the same force applied, the fluid in a larger line will flow slower - which might be better for cooling. Or it might be an unwelcome load on the pump. I doubt it would hurt anything, though, and may help cooling.
for a given viscosity fluid and a given flow rate, a larger tube will give less resistance to flow... it just flows slower when it gets to the larger diameter tube.
This is why people use larger pipes to supply entire cities than they do single houses.
So use whatever line size you want, as long as it's larger than factory. Of course at a certain point making them larger doesn't really improve things any.
But the fluid will travel the same speed through the cooler no matter what size line since the volume of the cooler doesn't change.
Also, they do make an in line -8 an fitting with a 1/8" npt hole for a temp sensor. You need to order a short temp sensor too. In running one.
do you guys think these would handle the pressure off at least the return line, if not the sending line? 8$ a piece seems legit. I already run rubber tranny line to some cut down metal lines coming off the quick discos at the tranny. if these would work, itd be way cheaper than the earls fittings route.
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