JoshT
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- January 15, 2011
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- City, State
- Middle Georgia
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1999 Ranger
I hear you, but way it was sitting it has t had a chance to get water in that part. Even what came out of the radiator still had antifreeze in it.Any radiator that has sat outside I would not use the tranmission cooler. Any water in there will rust it out and in a while you will be mixing water with trans fluid which will kill your trans. Simple solution is to bypass the internal cooler and run dual factory trans coolers
Found this out the hard way more then once
I will be running dual factory coolers since I've got three of them. The 5R55E appears to use the same cooler, so truck already had one, and I've got two more from the V8 Explorers. For now I'm probably just going to run the one, but the nose will come apart for a facelift and the second will be added.
FWIW, ordered a new radiator anyway. Didn't want to use the single row that came in the Ex donor, and we found a torn flue in the dual core. At about $100 on Amazon, it wasn't worth trying to fix. If fix didn't hold I'd have to pull it all back out again.
More of a trans heater than cooler. It does provide some cooling bu,t considering that these have a separate cooler, it's more important job (in some areas) is to help get the fluid up to temp. Probably not an issue here, but it's there so I'm going to keep it plumbed.It is such a small trans cooler anyway, it's a good time to upgrade to a bigger external unit.