cooling in the pits
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cooling in the pits
anyone have a good way of cooling a trans in the pits? running a glide and once I start getting into the later rounds, its getting harder to keep the temp down, any McGuyver setups out there?
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A good cooler with a fan helps in the late rounds, but you must start it a few times to get the hot fluid out of the converter. Next thing you can get under it with a water sprayer and spray the pan and converter down it helps a ton.
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i hope you dont have the tranny lines Looped..If so this is One Big problem for over heating..outside what the others said..you may want to try some Hydraulic Fluid they say it runs cooler.
just out of curiosity you wouldn't be running to loose of a conveter would you ?...running a looser converter than what you need will also make that tranny heat up more......
just replaced a buddy of mine tranny ( 350 turbo ) for running to soft of a converter on the street..took his tranny right out..
just out of curiosity you wouldn't be running to loose of a conveter would you ?...running a looser converter than what you need will also make that tranny heat up more......
just replaced a buddy of mine tranny ( 350 turbo ) for running to soft of a converter on the street..took his tranny right out..
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Originally Posted by kwkracing
a electric leaf blower! Plug it in your generator and point where the dust shield was!
This works better than spraying water under your car that could be dripping under your back tires :shock: ..
I also run Hydra/tranz tractor fluid that works great....
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Originally Posted by sg1586
Originally Posted by kwkracing
a electric leaf blower! Plug it in your generator and point where the dust shield was!
This works better than spraying water under your car that could be dripping under your back tires :shock: ..
I've sprayed mine several times and never had a issue though