The transmission of my 93 auto blew and I swapped it with another from the junk yard.
Alls up and running. I am a bit confused abt the transmission lines which go to the radiator. Do the hoses cross each other?

There is a long metal hose on the passenger side of the transmission which if I remember right crosses over the other short hose and goes to the drivers side of the radiator?

Is that rite?
Pls check ur cars and let me know..I am scared as hell and dont want to blow my tranny for the second time.


Modified by mozzy at 5:08 AM 8/11/2005

 

Hopefully someone will show you a picture or give you an exact desription but it doesnt matter which way fluid flows through the radiator, there is no check valve, it is just a cooling tank in there. I always recommend though that this tank get flushed if the radiator is used, it has a buildup of someone elses bad tranny in it, new fluid in your tranny will wash this thing clean and get built up in your filter or worse. Get an in line filter and put it on the return side.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Duane_in_Japan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hopefully someone will show you a picture or give you an exact desription but it doesnt matter which way fluid flows through the radiator, there is no check valve, it is just a cooling tank in there. I always recommend though that this tank get flushed if the radiator is used, it has a buildup of someone elses bad tranny in it, new fluid in your tranny will wash this thing clean and get built up in your filter or worse. Get an in line filter and put it on the return side.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks man!
I drained/refilled my tranny once and will do it again this weekend. Plan to do it again in a month. Dont plan on flushing it as many have said it is contra indicated.
Also when I drained the used tranny the first time, it was not so bad and they was no solid debris.
Sorry but I dont get ur point of flushing transmission lines in radiator. MY radiator is stock. Just swapped my tranny.

 

If you dont brush your teeth it gets plaque build up. If you dont change your fluid in your tranny every couple of years it will leave a build up in the pan and in the cooler tank in the radiator.

What do you think the fluid goes to the radiator for anyways, probably you may have done regular service on your tranny but if you did then why did it need changed. Reguardless of a tranny change or not, changing fluid after an extended time of not changing in is not a great thing to do, its a good thing to do but it can and sometimes does bad things, like washing all the builup of plaque out of the cooler tank right into your tranny, either old original one or replacement that has been well cared for or a new rebuild that the customer has installed himself, thats you.

When a tranny shop throws in a rebuild they should and so should you, flush the cooler tank with a good cleaner like naptha (parts cleaner tank solution) and then blow it all out, this is like brushing the inside of the cooler tank and getting rid of all that buildup so it doesnt go to your freshly installed tranny and does who knows what, maybe the same thing it did to your last tranny that took a dump.

Put an inline filter just like everyother fluid in the system has, gas, oil, and even air conditioning is getting in line filters installed, its easy to change and you dont have to drop the pan if it looks good when you cut it open on an annual inspection.

Doing your own tranny flush is not the best way to flush a tranny, that only gets about 1/2 of the fluid, hence you doing several flushes in the first month but a pro shop can tap into the cooler hose that we are talking about in the beginning and get 100% of the old fluid + or - a touch of fluid.