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Wed Nov 02, 2022 8:27 pm
Yep. There's a mini radiator-inside-a-radiator on the other side of those fittings. They're always in the outlet tank, so they dump tranny heat into coolant that's already passed through the radiator. That's usually 25~40F cooler than the nominal thermostat temperature, and heat transfer from fluid to fluid is roughly 27 times more efficient than fluid to air. So it doesn't take a very long tube to have the same effect as a large radiating cooler. Problems only enter the picture when the cooling system is stressed and the tranny is loaded, then the outlet tank temp rises at the same time the tranny is heating up and the exchanger loses most of its cool.