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Transmission Cooler

While prowling the junkyard I notice an auxiliary transmission cooler on an '76 F350 Camper Special. The mount looked like it could be easily modified to fit my Maverick. I figure if the engineers in Detroit think it is big enough for a heavy duty truck transmission then it will be good enough for what I wanted it to do. For less than $10 the junkyard part was going home with me.

They say a stacked flat style cooler is superior than the tube fin type cooler plus it takes up 1/3 the space. After a test fit to see what will need to be done to make this cooler fit I marked the location so the cooler will be behind the grille. I then cut off the enforcement pleat from the mounting tab so the tab could be bent 90 degrees.

I took concaved washers and ground the edges so the washer could fit between the radiator support grooves. This bridged the back side of the channel so when the bolt is tightened it would be solid to the support.

I marked the location for the bolt. After I had this end bolted down I then scribed a line where the other tab will bent around the hood latch support. I bent this end 90 degrees and drilled 2 holes in the support to fasten the cooler.

Without knowing the history of the cooler I cleaned it out with a can of cooler flush before plumbing.

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