Well as most of you probably saw my stock radiator started leaking on me. I ordered a dual core radiator from ebay. The trans cooler fittings were wrong so it was just an excuse to get an external cooler.

heres my original thread https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=338754



making the trans cooler bracket


trans cooler mounted vertically in front of condenser. mounted like this it is as tall as the condenser is.


new dual core radiator fabbing up some new efan brackets.

 

 

since then i finished installing all the intake and other parts that i pulled out. and cleaned up the wiring :o

everything seems to be running good and cool
-Patrick

 

lookin good man looks like u got the gap right to optimal flow is lik 1/2-3/4" distance from the radiator

 

Nice work. So, you bypassed the radiator all together? Are the mushroom caps in the first photo used to just seal the trans portion of the radiator?

 

I installed a new trans cooler, and radiator. I did not use the OEM style trans cooler in the radiator side tank.

yes the "mushroom" caps are the trans cooler quick disconnect line fitting.

If you look closely in the last blurry picture you can see the two new trans cooler lines running forward under the radiator. I can take more specific pics of that this weekend.

 

Nice job patman. Great minds think alike? :-p

 

VERY NICE!! Looking at all these different posts has given me some great ideas for when my wife comes back from her trip as to how to permanently mount my Perma-cools!!

 

got a question, though...do you think your new tranny cooler will be enough by itself without the in-radiator cooler?

Externally mounted transmission coolers are often referred to as auxilliary coolers. Usually their purpose is to "help out" the in-radiator tranny cooler, not replace it altogether. Since they are air-to-fluid coolers, I don't see how even the best auxilliary cooler could completely replace the in-radiator fluid-to-fluid cooler.

However...I don't pretend to be an expert on this subject; perhaps Mark Kovalsky (member here) can chime in here. If I remember right, he is or was a FoMoCo transmission cooling engineer.

 

on the 05+ f150's and lightnings the transmission coolers were no longer put into the radiator because of heat soak from the high coolant temperatures that would just bake the fluid causing the transmission to run hot. even the super duty trucks went to large external coolers because they are more effective.

 

^^^^^ This is what I'm working on now. I added a 44,000 gvw cooler and a stack plate fan cooler.....leave the radiator for the coolant.

 

im using a hayden 1405 rated for 26,000 GVW




got it used for 17 bucks

 

sweet Pat. now come do mine. lol