Anyone have any thoughts on this transmission cooler...90 302 Bronco AOD towing a 3500lb boat... they have 3 different options 16,000...19,000 and 24,000gvw...any suggestions on which one? cooler always better?
Thanks

 

I am always one who likes bigger is better but I was told by a reliable friend of mine who owned a tranny shop that you don't want to go too wild with a tranny cooler. The tranny fluid does like to be upto a certain temperature for best operation. Too cold and it may shift hard or slowly (mine does this when it is cold).

He recommended that you figure out the GCWR(weight of the truck, trailer and load etc) and go with a cooler rated for that or the next size up. Of course alot also depends on how cold it gets around you. The southern states can probably go bigger. If I lived in Alaska or Canada, I might go smaller. At the time he told me this I lived in So Cal and had a "Hot Rod" he had just rebuilt the tranny on.

Still I am always tempted to get the gigantic size cooler. But so far I have resisted.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson

 

Thanks Jim...the 16,000gvw cooler should be more than enough