i recently just bypassed my trans cooler to where it's not in conjunction with the radiator. now i just need to find some plugs to cap off the radiator where the cooler lines went before.

thanks,
Lance

 

Dunno about a plug, but you could put hose barbs on it and just run a hose from top to bottom?

I cant rememer the thread size tho....

 

thanks J!
i will keep that in mind if i don't find any. the thing with the barb fittings is that they will most likely be npt fittings where as the radiator is metric i believe.

 

I asked what the thread size was for those fittings a few months ago and didn't get any responses (I want to upgrade to a TruCool 40k when I get my FLT level5 and would like to use AN fittings and black braided hoses).
but, with the radiator bypassed, there will be nothing flowing through there, so you could actually use plastic plugs if you wanted to, I think that I've seen them in the Summit catalog, they just push in.

 

I used some small rubber plugs Lance. When I got this 34" radiator, I already had the trans circut out of the radiator. so there had never been any fluid through there, I just got some small rubber plugs from Advance and stuck them in there to keep the dirt dobbers from building nests LOL

 

Wow, this is weird. I just pulled mine off today and had to stop tonight because I couldn't figure out how to connect the two lines.

Is everyone just using a piece of rubber hose and clamping them down, or how are you connecting the two lines? I'd like to refrain from cutting so I can put it back in the radiator during the winter.

 

you could probably use 3/8's hydraulic hose, just slide it on past the little ridge in the tubing and put a hose clamp on the backside of the ridge to keep it from coming off. i would get 3 stainless nut and ferule tube couplers. cut the stock tubing right out of the radiator and clamp one on each tube out of the radiator and one for coupling the lines back together for bypass, then going back and forth would be a simple thread together job.

 

Not a bad idea. This may be a ghetto idea, but do you think using some of those braided lines at home depot for sinks and toilets would be ghetto?

 

Im interested in knowing how to bypass the radiator as well. I was under the impression the threads on the rad were 3/8?

 

There are two transmission lines on the passenger side of the radiator. They are vertical in relation to one another. They are held in by an "E" clip. Remove the e-clip for each and mop up the bit of transmission fluid that will seep out the bottom and then find a way to connect the two hoses.