Terryallan wrote:
Ben. My trans cooler is AFTER the radiator, not before it. So the fluid goes straight from the cooler to the trans, and not back thru the radiator.
That is the way all the OEMs route the fluid if there is both an in tank cooler and an air to oil cooler. I studied the competition when I was an automatic transmission cooling engineer at Ford.
I don't see any reason why you would want to run the in tank cooler after the air to oil. The purpose of the transmission
cooling system is to cool the ATF. The most efficient way to do that is to run the air to oil cooler after the in tank cooler.
Newer transmissions have a thermostat the bypasses the cooler until the trans reaches a preset temperature. There is no need to warm the trans fluid outside of the transmission. And the thermostat is a wax pellet type, it is not computer controlled in any way.
