Re: [AMC-List] air cooled trannys

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, russ hathaway wrote:

> How much pressure would be lost if two fittings were
> installed in the pan? Sealing the fittings would be
> easy, running the lines with an external filter a
> piece of cake and I am thinking of a marine sump pump
> to circulate things. Aren't those pumps adjustable?

The problem here is that though there is one fluid pickup,
via the filter, there are many outlets to the pan (from the
internals).

Two, there are at least two kinds of filters; a flat screen
that fits onto the valve body, and another that has a sort of
air cleaner-like funnel that picks fluid up from the center of
the pan more or less.

I think without knowing pan oil flow, you could end up running
fluid in a circle through the pump, and not do any cooling
at all.

> Hydraulic fluid won't hurt them, right?

Trans fluid isn't hydraulic fluid. And I know that it eats
black fuel line -- there is special "transmission fluid" hose
used for trannie coolers. 

> As if I don't have enough to do, now you guys got me
> thinking of tearing up a perfectly good running
> American. THANKS A LOT......Russ

Good luck! I would love to see how it goes (in spite of my
cynicism :-)

I'm thinking of simply adding a temp gauge to the trans, and
slowing down when it shows hot :-)
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