I have been searchin the forums for the past half hour looking for a write-up on installing a transmission cooler on a 2002 max. Anyone have one or know where I could find one?

 

http://www.greghome.com/Greg's%20Gar...n%20Cooler.htm

 

I found that in my searches...tis for 4th gen

 

you can use a universal tranny cooler, either a perma cool, or a b&m from jegs. very, very easy to do.

 

ok this is an easy one.

buy anyone you want, personally i liked my hayden 404 i had on my 4th gen, anyways at the bottom of your radiator built into it is the stock tranny cooler. what you want to do is take the return line from that and run it into your new cooler and then the new cooler line back. so you use both the stock + after market cooler.
also supplied in the hayden kit i got are zip tie like devices made to go through the radiator to support the new cooler. or you could just ghetto zip tie it up somewhere.
good luck...
out of curiosity why do you think you need it?
do you AutoX alot?
have you measured the actual tranny temps and realized they are getting too high?
do you think this will help it last longer or fix rough shifting?

 

its the same thing

 

No I don't AutoX at all, haven't measured the temps, but have just noticed that when I drive it hard the transmission gets lazy, shifts rough and behaves oddly. Plus I have heard that adding the cooler is a good way to extend its life and hopefully fix the rough shifting.

 

its always good to keep the tranny cool.

 

Yea so I have heard. Plus with the autos known for bein craptastic I thought I would spend 50 to avoid spendin 1000 and gettin a crappy rebuilt trans.

 

How many miles are on your tranny? My 3rd gen had 210K and had a nice hard shift from 1st to 2nd. I was told to invest $15 in a bottle of Lucas fully-synthetic tranny fluid and then get enough Dexron III to fill everything after a drain. Tranny now has 300K and is still shifting relatively smoothly for a 16 year old auto-tranny.

 

I've got 75k on mine now. When its cold and I step on it it slips from first to second. Then when I'm drivin it kinda hard it gets hot and it seems really sluggish, won't downshift when it should, odd shifting, hard shifting.

 

mine has 34k, behaves very oddly after hard drving..i wanna get a cooler also.

i drive to tampa often, and after 4 hrs on the highway, whenever i make a stop the shifts are very rough, and prolonged.

 

it's not good to push the car too hard when it's cold.. keep the rpms low (like below 3k) and let it warm up before you really step on it

 

yeah, u know i was thinking the same thing.. mine has 107k miles, and is slipping sometimes shifting from 1st to 2nd at high rpms (5k-6k) and sometimes shifts hard when it shifts between 4k-5k rpms.. i was thinking of adding either seafoam tranny or AutoRX, and flushing it with mobil 1 synthetic fluid.. then adding a tranny cooler.. anybody think that might cure my issues?

 

No, probably not. If you never maintained the tranny fluid prior, changing and flushing it now probably will make it worse.

A valve body/solenoids or tranny rebuilt are probably the only way the issue will be resolved.

A tranny cooler won't do anything except maybe prolong the inevitable, tranny rebuild.