First thing you need to do is purchase a 6 tube trans
cooler,
or more tubes if you tow. I picked mine up at PEP
BOYS. If you want to save a few dollars you can try
JC Whitney auto parts, a mail order company. You can follow the
instructions on the box to add this IN ADDITION to your radiator cooler. I
by-passed my radiator, I cut my trans lines and purchased extra rubber hose to
reach both cut off points. If you cut the metal tubes, you MUST be careful you
clean the cuts of all metal filing before you add the connections.
The installation was not so easy as the "Chilton auto repair" instructions
were a bit flawed. You must take off the 4 bolts to the metal cover
holding the radiator in place. You must then take off the 3 screws on the
front of the chrome grill and remove the grill to locate two more bolts holding
on the top radiator part. This transmission cooler was very thin. It
fit it in tiny space between the grill and those two metal U-shaped support
arms. I held the cooler in place by using the supplied foam pads and added
extra foam strips (door foam) placed on those front U-bars. The cooler
will be pressed against this extra foam by the supplied plastic support tabs.
The plastic support tabs can't take a lot of tension, so be careful.
I aligned and drilled holes into the black plastic just behind the chrome grill.
I placed the cooler where it should go. Visualized a straight shot just
under the first cooler tube and just above the last I drilled four holes through
this black plastic support. You MUST reattach the 2 bolts on the U-bars
before you finally attach the cooler as the U-bars will be pressed backwards
when their bolts are attached. This created more space between the
front black plastic support and the metal U-bars. If you don't replace
the U-bar bolts before you add the support tabs, you will damage the cooler or
snap the plastic support tabs as the space increases. So bolt the
U-bars first then adjust the plastic tabs to hold the cooler. Make sure
the added foam on the U-bars touch the cooler. I cut a small hole in the
rubber shield on the right to have the two cooler hoses pass through. I
used plastic wire ties to hold the new cooler hoses out of the way of the fan
and a bit of extra hose to connect the old hoses to each other to keep it clean
in the radiator trans cooler area. You can install the trans cooler behind and
at the bottom of the radiator as the instructions state but with this being the
only cooling item, I decided to have constant air passing this cooler.