I just got a 74 f 100 4wd with a 360/c6/205.

The tranny overheats, I am running 3.50 gears with 38.5" boggers. I know the whole story about gearing and such. I am not changing the gears in this truck, its a beater rig. BTW power for boggin, cogs for crawlin. I have a 500 dollar budget. So with that said, can I run a couple of Tees in the stock tranny lines to the cooler in the rad and add an additional cooler? I am adding a small cam and intake soon, the truck has plenty of power now even stock, just after 15-20 mins of climbing hills and such the trans gets hot and slips, thus causing the engine to start warming up a bit too. I have a pyrometer to stick in the pan to monitor temp too. Free and cheap for this rig.

Would 2- 2000 cfm electric fans be enough to keep the truck cool? Is only 60 out and the truck gets hot, so would a flush be in order for the cooling system, or find a aluminum 4 core out of a mustang or something and try to make it work. I know cooling is a problem for these trucks and pulling the big tires with stock gears is like hauling 1500 pounds or so.

On another positive note, using my gps as a trip meter I am getting 13 mpg, with mixed hi way/offroad driving.

 

you might want to try lookin around the local junkyard for some older maybe even newer fords for transmission coolers,,my truck came stock with a transmission cooler,,its not very big so you could fit two of those in front of your radiator for maximum cooling

 

Its got the stock cooler thats built into the radiator, just not enough for the truck plus 3 big rednecks in the cab on the side of a mountain

 

I believe you take one line off of the radiator then run that line to the cooler. Then run other line from cooler to radiator. You don't have to put t's in each line.

 

good deal, thanks.

 

haha,,,,,well those coolers are all i can tell you good luck!