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tranny coolers
« on: February 15, 2006, 03:00:44 AM »
to make a tranny cooler take the original tranny lines and basicly flip them into the back seat area under the passenger side seat. every where you cut the lines use a tranny line spect rubber hose with 2 or 3 clamps, one will allways leak. then hook up a tranny cooler off any car that will fit into a bucket or what ever you use . and then fill it up with ice. it will stay cool the whole time on the track but after evry heat, consi, or feature fill the bucket back up

the more line you use the cooler it will stay

if you use a metal bucket, ammo box, old cooler it will stay cooler longer than a plastic one

i use a plastic 5 gallon bucket in every thing and buy about 3-5 bags of ice becouse it will melt quick in the summer time no matter where you put it at befor you run.
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Re: tranny coolers
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2006, 12:10:18 AM »
How many minutes does it take to melt all the ice in the bucket??  is there still cubes when the heat or feature is over or is it usually melted by that point?

Ive taken the heater core and brazed fittings on it and ran the tranny fluid thru it with the blower motor on as a cooler before, it works ok as long as nothing shorts out. But the bucket of ice idea is different.  Have you ever gotten an icy bath yet??
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« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2006, 02:29:35 AM »
always had ice left over to cool my soda/beer but i always carry a few extra bags becouse heat/consi/feature i buy about 3-5 bags per run once you fill it up it will melt but not as bad as you would think
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« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2006, 06:53:29 PM »
My luck the lid would come off and soak me head to toe.
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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2006, 01:37:34 AM »
i use a 5 gallon bucket that has the snap on lid that takes like 15 min to pull off when you want it to . run my lines thew the drain hole in the lid
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2006, 03:35:31 PM »
i made a 20"x20"x9" cooler box out of 5/16 steel it holds two 22lb bags of ice stick it under the pass.seat .around ohio most of the derbys won't let you have them so i make it look like the bottom of the seat and just use the seat cover to cover it up.i have had mine melt and boiling and steaming just about every derby.

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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2006, 07:26:01 PM »
Run manual trannies and you don't have to waste your beer ice for the tranny cooler!

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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2006, 11:27:39 AM »
I always lost the clutch cable or shift linkage on the manual trannys.
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