<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: MeIsCheech

Don't U hate it when U are sitting at the stop light at Ambuam and 122nd SW and someone yells out Ur name and U are like WTF who is that?</end quote></div>

I dang near came back around to give you a hard time but figured you were "working" so hard I didn't want to interrupt. Besides, there were so many City Light guys there I probably couldn't have found a parking spot. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

Sure got my immediate attention with that bellow! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: warriorqueen
Good Morning PSAR!!
Well Justin and I parked the toyhauler under the carport. She barely fits in there! We started looking at his truck and the cooler is on the outside of his radiator and it sits low, down by the license plate. It's about 2 feet by about 6 inches. We compared that one with the one on his cruizer, he thinks the one on the cruizer is bigger. He is going to move the cooler up more on his truck and see if that helps. I told him about the lines, etc and he said that he wants to move it first and see if that's the problem, if not he wants to get a bigger one. Not sure when he will be working on that.
OFC yea he has a programmer for his truck. </end quote></div>

I was going to post a comment on transmission coolers last night but the site would not accept anything.

We have had our transmission work done by one fellow for a number of years, he's very good at what he does and I tend to follow his advice which I believe has cut our costs for transmissions in pickups and light trucks considerably.

He told me a number of years ago that most transmission cooling systems were adequate if the rig is used as a daily driver with an occasional load that was not of long duration. His advice for pickups we used to pull equipment trailers or stock trailers was to increase the size of the fluid lines and add a secondary cooler. He has little use for the small coolers added by many transmission shops. The line routing was important as well. He preferred to go from the transmission into a thermostat that would route the oil back to the transmission until proper operating temperature was achieved. Once the fluid reaches the set temperature it is routed to the stock cooler in the radiator, the auxiliary cooler and then back to the transmission. Since, as Ordell put it, a transmission is every bit as complex and temperature sensitive as an engine it needs to have more than a hit and miss temperature control system. For rigs that were heavily loaded he would suggest a separate coil with it's own fan. We have mounted these fan/coil units in various places on various rigs but find it best to mount them behind the grill if there is room. Inside the frame behind the transmission is a fair second choice but attention to keeping the coil clean is imperative. Use a temperature switch on the fan to keep from overcooling the oil in cold weather. Apparently running a transmission too cold is really not a good thing.

Just some information learned from a pretty sharp, if somewhat cranky, old dude that has done us right over the years.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: HappaRap
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: MeIsCheech Don't U hate it when U are sitting at the stop light at Ambuam and 122nd SW and someone yells out Ur name and U are like WTF who is that?</end quote></div>
I've had that happen to me riding my bicycle in a traffic lane keeping up with the flow of traffic, they must have mistaken me for somebody else, kept yelling out hey Focker </end quote></div>

OH! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/img] [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img] That was you! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img] Sorry! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: tencubed

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: warriorqueen

Good Morning PSAR!!

Well Justin and I parked the toyhauler under the carport. She barely fits in there! We started looking at his truck and the cooler is on the outside of his radiator and it sits low, down by the license plate. It's about 2 feet by about 6 inches. We compared that one with the one on his cruizer, he thinks the one on the cruizer is bigger. He is going to move the cooler up more on his truck and see if that helps. I told him about the lines, etc and he said that he wants to move it first and see if that's the problem, if not he wants to get a bigger one. Not sure when he will be working on that.

OFC yea he has a programmer for his truck. </end quote></div>



I was going to post a comment on transmission coolers last night but the site would not accept anything.



We have had our transmission work done by one fellow for a number of years, he's very good at what he does and I tend to follow his advice which I believe has cut our costs for transmissions in pickups and light trucks considerably.



He told me a number of years ago that most transmission cooling systems were adequate if the rig is used as a daily driver with an occasional load that was not of long duration. His advice for pickups we used to pull equipment trailers or stock trailers was to increase the size of the fluid lines and add a secondary cooler. He has little use for the small coolers added by many transmission shops. The line routing was important as well. He preferred to go from the transmission into a thermostat that would route the oil back to the transmission until proper operating temperature was achieved. Once the fluid reaches the set temperature it is routed to the stock cooler in the radiator, the auxiliary cooler and then back to the transmission. Since, as Ordell put it, a transmission is every bit as complex and temperature sensitive as an engine it needs to have more than a hit and miss temperature control system. For rigs that were heavily loaded he would suggest a separate coil with it's own fan. We have mounted these fan/coil units in various places on various rigs but find it best to mount them behind the grill if there is room. Inside the frame behind the transmission is a fair second choice but attention to keeping the coil clean is imperative. Use a temperature switch on the fan to keep from overcooling the oil in cold weather. Apparently running a transmission too cold is really not a good thing.



Just some information learned from a pretty sharp, if somewhat cranky, old dude that has done us right over the years.</end quote></div>

Thanks for that info Ten! I will print what you said and show Justin. Thanks again! [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

Someone was looking for an 18' awning a few pages back. On Craigslist there is one in the RV for sale section for $250.00 "in nice condition" "brownish tones". Search "RV Awning".

This site is so slow anymore I'm too lazy to go back and find the post. Sorry.

 

That would of been Dirtmomma.

 

slow slow slow contractors [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

 

tencubed,

Great post on the tranny cooler, once again your wealth of knoweldge amazes me [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

 

warriorqueen,

How many miles are on that 350 and why did he have to replace the tranny in the first place?

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: maggiesboy

who poured cocktails last night?</end quote></div>

That was awful, wasn't it. We made it home (to the porch), then closed down the next door neighbors till 11:30. It was bad.