Hayden ATX Cooler Install

[mcgarvey]

My Hayden #404 cooler came today. I mounted it in front of the AC condenser, and I'm hoping to get a few questions answered before I make the fluid line connections. Ok, here goes:

1. When I undo the bottom transmission fluid line from the radiator, how much fluid will spill out? Will it drain the entire contents of the pan through suction? I just did a drain and fill and I'm hoping to not have to do the whole thing again.

2. When I take that steel line out of the bottom of the radiator, how can I attach a flexible hose to it? Is it a compression fitting where I can just slide the nut back and have a piece of flanged metal pipe there where I can just put the hose over it and clamp it?

3. Does the adaptor fitting that comes with the cooler screw into that hole in the bottom of the radiator?

Hopefully you guys can help me know what to expect. Thanks in advance.

[bensenvill]

I'm going to jump in on this one, I've had my atx cooler laying around the basement for way too long. I've made zero effort to figure out how to install it.

if someone could add a few sentances to their answer to mcgarvey's excellent question for the completely uninformed person, I would greatly appreciate it.

[Apex]

I recently installed a tranny cooler, I can try to answer some of those questions...

1.Whatever is in the line will pour out, and the the fluid in the tranny will drip out, that's about it. Maybe a bit over a quart...
2. The end of the steel line is something like a flared fitting. The K&N kit I used came with both the male and female fittings for the rad port, I just bent the steel line a bit back to get space, then used the female fitting with a barb adapter to connect the hose.
3. The kit I bought ( K&N ), came with a couple different fittings, one of those fit the port in the rad exactly.

The entire job should take only about an hour.

[mcgarvey]

The cooler itself is mounted, and I may attempt to make the connections Tuesday if I have the time. When I do, I'll let you know what I find. There are instructions on doing this, but they are very vague and dont list any part numbers for fittings and the like. Hopefully I'll be able to figure this out, and when I do I'll do a full writeup for the how-to section.

[Apex]

I just remembered I have some pics and stuff frm when I installed mine :

The kit I bought comes with all the hardware necessary :




Here's the pic of the line that runs from the radiator back to the tranny ( circled by the green circle ) ;




That's the line that the new cooler supposed to splice into. Here's a pic of where the cooler will be going , it's between the radiator and the power steering cooler ( Not the best location, ideal is in front of the power steering cooler as well ) :




There were these foam spacer that are supposed to go on the cooler so it's not right up against the rad. :




The cooler slid right in its place with no problems ( a slight persuasion was necessary, though not of the BFH kind ):




All that was left to do after this was to hook up the lines ( rad -> cooler , cooler -> tranny ) :



And that was it, I had to fill about .5 liter of tranny fluid in there, to replace whatever leaked out, and the extra volume of the line/cooler.

[dgodard]

Hope it helps:

http://www.contour.org/ubbthreads/sh...&o=all&fpart=1

I added like 6qts too of atx fluid, first i drained atx, then i removed return line from radiator.

[Apex]

Hope it helps:

http://www.contour.org/ubbthreads/sh...&o=all&fpart=1

I added like 6qts too of atx fluid, first i drained atx, then i removed return line from radiator.

Same location to tap in, now I know I'm not crazy...

You have way better pics, I wish I saw that before I did mine, would have saved me a lot of headache ( I wanted to tap in on the driverside return line near tranny initally )

[mcgarvey]

What I really need is the part number of the fitting kit you used. It requires one female threaded adapter with a hose barb on the other end (radiator to cooler hose) and a male threaded adapter with a hose barb (cooler hose to transmission return line. Does anyone have a part number for the fittings? This is all I need.

[dgodard]

mcgarvey, that kit came included with my B&M atx cooler, those installation kits are sold at summitracing

[bensenvill]

mcgarvey, that kit came included with my B&M atx cooler, those installation kits are sold at summitracing

same kit I have waiting.

wow, that looks a lot easier than I was expecting... looks like I have a weekend project