Best tranny cooling procedure?
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Best tranny cooling procedure?
After driving your truck hard, would it be best to keep driving the truck normal and easy to keep airflow going under the truck, or would leaving your truck sitting at idle with my e-fans on be the best way to cool it down. As of right now, I am using the in radiator tranny cooler FYI.
Would either of these options be better than turn the truck off and letting it cool off on its own?
Would either of these options be better than turn the truck off and letting it cool off on its own?
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If your flowing air over the cooler in park/neutral then I'd just leave it in park/N. I don't think air going under the truck is going to cool it that much (at least not on my Grand Prix or Monte), I don't have a temp guage on my silverado but I think air flowing past the cooler is the best idea.
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Temps will rise setting still running and more so when in gear any energy not transfered to the wheels becomes heat its that simple. There no reason to leave the engine running to cool the trans unless your at the track and then idle in park with good air flow across and after market cooler would be good,
As for just going through the stock radiator setup idling you would likely get more cooling with the engine off as the engine makes more heat than the trans ever does
As for just going through the stock radiator setup idling you would likely get more cooling with the engine off as the engine makes more heat than the trans ever does
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This question was more of a "What to do if..." type question. Thanks for all the replys so far. I figured it would be a better idea to let it going so the tranny is pumping fluid through it and keeping the fluid moving, rather than letting it sit and making the fluid get warmer around all the hot parts.
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Temps will rise setting still running and more so when in gear any energy not transfered to the wheels becomes heat its that simple. There no reason to leave the engine running to cool the trans unless your at the track and then idle in park with good air flow across and after market cooler would be good,
As for just going through the stock radiator setup idling you would likely get more cooling with the engine off as the engine makes more heat than the trans ever does
As for just going through the stock radiator setup idling you would likely get more cooling with the engine off as the engine makes more heat than the trans ever does