I would like to put a trailblazer converter in within the next month or two, along with a tranny cooler other than the stock one.

-How much ground clearance is needed to do this?

-How hard is it?

-Could anybody list ALL the steps to doing this?!!

-How do you hook up a tranny cooler if you already have the stock one?

Thanks in Advance!

 

Ken did mine here in GA, you need to PM SS Rally Red.. hes a good guy and would have no prob in talking to ya. He had a lift and it was just easier for him that way to work on it. However, I think you only need to jack if up a bit just to get underthere...

You would need to hook the hose that is flowing OUT of the stock tranny cooler and connect that into the aftermarket one and than make the aftermarket one flow back to the tranny, basically install the cooler so its added in route with the rest of the setup.. bc its Tranny>Cooler>raditator>tranny... in your case it would be Tranny>OEM cooler>Aftermarket Cooler>Radiator>Tranny.


I understand it is not that hard.. however, i wasnt there to witness him working on that part of my cam swap... pm Ken tho and ask him.. he probably wontget back to you till late tonite.. hes at year one today i think or some event and than sunday he has massive cam installs.. so hopefully before the weekend is over he'll get back to you.

 

Ground Clearance, you need enough to be able to freely move under the truck on a creeper. A really heavy floor jack is necessary too, one with a long reach. With the truck up on a healthy set of ramps and the rear on jack stands, it should be doable.

It's really not that hard. It's basically, drop the trans, remove and replace the converter, and stick the trans back up. It's a little more in depth than that, but pretty simple. The easiest way to get all the bolts on the bell housing are with a socket and a few long extensions. The one's with nuts on them are 13mm, and the stud itself is 15. A 15mm deep socket will make life MUCH easier. It's worth going out and buying JUST the socket if you don't have one already.

Putting the converter on, you'll feel it go in 3 times. Put it on the input shaft, twist while pushing in, and you'll feel it give 3 times. When you put the trans back in place, only put in 2 bolts, the easiest ones opposite from each other to get to, then reach in there and try and turn the converter. It should spin freely with the trans in place. If it rubs on something, drop it back down and get it pushed in all the way. It may take a couple of times to get the converter fully seated, but it will.

There are some pics on my site of a tranny cooler. www.woracing.com/truck Follow the same principle, but you could just cut your lines for the aux cooler and use them.

Do you already have the converter? PM me if you don't.

 

Thanks for the Info!!!

 

Your aftermarket cooler should be after the radiator...it will cool better that way. The radiator will try to keep the tranny temp the same as the coolant temp, so if you were to put the extra cooler before the radiator, you would be cooling fluid then sending it into the radiator to be heated back up. Doesn't make much sense. Your setup should go tranny->radiator->external cooler->tranny, or if you have the heavy duty towing package, it will go tranny->radiator->OEM cooler->aftermarket cooler->tranny. The order of the oem cooler and aftermarket cooler doesn't matter, as long as they both come after the radiator.

 

Thunder's right as far as order, but I would just ditch the OEM cooler all together.

 

ya, sorry about that... I meant to type it in the order that Thunder said.. must have been a drunk post, sry, lol.