New 2004 Grand Caravan and need recommendations on an aftermarket transmission cooler

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by Not Me, Feb 20, 2004.

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    Not Me Guest

    My wife has a spanking new 2004 Caravan with a 3.8L engine. I'm interested
    in installing an aftermarket transmission cooler and would appreciate
    recommendations on a brand and any other useful information on how to
    improve the operation and longevity of my wife's new toy. (She posted a
    note on the dash "Does Not Play Well With Others" want to guess who
    'others' might be <g>?)
     
    Not Me, Feb 20, 2004
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  2. | My wife has a spanking new 2004 Caravan with a 3.8L engine. I'm interested
    | in installing an aftermarket transmission cooler and would appreciate
    | recommendations on a brand and any other useful information on how to
    | improve the operation and longevity of my wife's new toy. (She posted a
    | note on the dash "Does Not Play Well With Others" want to guess who
    | 'others' might be <g>?)
    |
    |
    |

    Do you live in a mountainous area or doing a lot of towing?
     
    James C. Reeves, Feb 21, 2004
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    jdoe Guest

    You may already have one. One thing you neeed to watch is overcooling too in
    the winter.
    Larry
     
    jdoe, Feb 21, 2004
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  4. Not Me

    Not Me Guest

    "jdoe" <

    | > My wife has a spanking new 2004 Caravan with a 3.8L engine. I'm
    interested
    | > in installing an aftermarket transmission cooler and would appreciate
    | > recommendations on a brand and any other useful information on how to
    | > improve the operation and longevity of my wife's new toy. (She posted a
    | > note on the dash "Does Not Play Well With Others" want to guess who
    | > 'others' might be <g>?)


    | You may already have one. One thing you need to watch is overcooling too
    in
    | the winter.
    | Larry

    Does not seem to be any auxiliary cooling on the puppy. I doubt there will
    be much overcooling as we are mostly in the south (I40 is as far north as we
    go in the winter with a lot of I10 driving in West Texas during the summer.)
     
    Not Me, Feb 22, 2004
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  5. Not Me

    Not Me Guest

    "James C. Reeves"
    |
    | | My wife has a spanking new 2004 Caravan with a 3.8L engine. I'm
    interested
    | | in installing an aftermarket transmission cooler and would appreciate
    | | recommendations on a brand and any other useful information on how to
    | | improve the operation and longevity of my wife's new toy. (She posted a
    | | note on the dash "Does Not Play Well With Others" want to guess who
    | | 'others' might be <g>?)

    | Do you live in a mountainous area or doing a lot of towing?

    We do considerable foot hills driving in Tennessee and WNC mostly along I40.
    There will be a lot of summer driving along I10 in West Texas. There will
    be some trailer towing but mostly limited to a light weight pop up. We have
    a RAM 1500 for the heavy loads.

    My concern is that in the past our vehicles with aux. cooling lasted
    considerably longer then those without. Basically I'm going to install an
    aux. cooler, the question is which one is best for this application and how
    should it be configured?
     
    Not Me, Feb 22, 2004
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    Bob Guest

    I have a 2004 T&C, and it does not have a radiator core cooler - only a real
    cooler in front of the radiator. Look at the driver side of the radiator,
    and see if the cooler lines go to the cooler instead of the radiator.
     
    Bob, Feb 22, 2004
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  7. There is no such thing as "overcooling" the transmission fluid in the real
    world -- you'd have to run a liquid-Nitrogen-to-trans-fluid heat exchanger
    to "overcool" the fluid.
     
    Daniel J. Stern, Feb 22, 2004
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