......just got new set of tranny cooling lines from Classic, but am having a problem getting them to line up. Was wondering if anyone has original type lines running that can post a pic or 2 to get me in the right direction.....have a 350 ci with 350TH.
Hmmmmm, that's weird, I think I have the bottom, but the top is a pain ....the bottom on the tranny goes to the bottom on radiator and vice versa, at least that's the way I bought it?
That doesn't make sense....the top is the OUTLET from the trans....
Radiator temps are higher at the top of the rad than at the bottom....hot coolant enters the top of the rad and cooled coolant leaves the bottom of the radiator to go back to the engine. That being the case the outlet from the tranny (hot fluid) should go in the top and come out the bottom, too.
If you pump tranny fluid IN from the top, it will fall to the bottom of the reservior and go directly back into the tranny, with no time spent in the radiator to cool it off.
By pumping it into the reservior from the bottom, it is required to travel up the complete length of the chamber, cool itself off, and then flow back into the tranny.
Plus the tranny fluid operates at a higher temp than radiator cooler, so the difference between 210/180 from top to bottom of radiator really doesn't matter that much in cooling the tranny fluid.
I didn't realize there was just 1 open chamber for a trans fluid to flow through.....thought the core snaked back and forth through the cooling fins whereby the fluid has to travel the length of the tube no matter what end it goes into....
I used CI transmission cooling lines on my TH350. I had to bend them so much in order to get them installed, it seemed a little silly that I had paid for pre-bent tubes. They're in. They work. They don't leak. I've moved on.
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