Placement of tranny cooler

[alabamafrog]

A cooler with a fan would be beneficial if you get in a situation where you are not moving fast enough to get good air flow. I would like to have one incase of that. I say just go ahead and find a good place to mount it and see how it works. BTW one of the Trucool 40,000# coolers I bought fits in the factory location. It was a tight fit and a pain to install but seems to work pretty good. It is the same size as the one I mounted behind my bumper but it has long brackets made onto it so it will bolt in beneath the inner cooler. Seems like the plain one was around $100 and the other around $120 new on the net.
Ford sends an inline filter with the tranny but no cooler, they do require that you change the factory cooler before they will honor the warranty.

[Bart_3500]

Originally Posted by redoil

Do you think the 6.0 cooler will fit in place of the stock cooler on my 2000 Excursion psd?

The change was a no brainer! The 6.0 even bolts into the oem holes of the smaller 7.3 cooler. I took the rubber flap off the top, removed the grill, removed the 7.3 cooler and used a brass hose barb arangement to connect the original cooler lines to the new cooler. One thing is that the 7.3 has smaller cooler lines than the 6.0. So you'll need to go from a 3.8" inverted flair female to a 1/2" hose barb and then run 1/2" transmission hose to the cooler. I believe I used about 4' of the 1/2' hose for each side. On the passenger side I had to make a big loop in order to not kink the hose.

[redoil]

Hey thanks -- done. Got it on Ebay for $230. ANy place with pictures for doing the replacement? I'm a bit of a clutz.