Hello.
I am planning to tow a medium size caravan (approximate weight 1800 pounds) with my 1953 Hornet with dual range hydramatic. Should I fit a transmission oil cooler? Has anyone fitted a transmission cooler ? If so can anyone advise where to make the connections on the transmission for fluid feed and return.
Any other advice for towing would be welcome.
Many thanks,for your help.
Brian.
My Hudson has the Packard v8 and Ultramatic and I put a transmission cooler on it in front of the radiator. Works very well as the main problem with these transmissions is that if they overheat, they fail. Installing one on a hydramatic should not be very difficult either. The cooler kits come with good directions on how it install it. That's all I used.
Hope this helps.
The factory cooler for the cast iron Hydromatic was a deeper pan with lengths of steel/copper brazed to it and open on each end. That's what they did with the large GMC trucks with a Detroit Diesel 6-71 engine in them.
That was steel/copper tubing!
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