Transmission oil coolness

[Y33TREKker]

...If you do drop the stock trans cooler, the engine cooling capacity of the stock rad will increase a lot. The downside is the trans oil will not be warmed by the engine hot water each morning. How did you attach to the stock trans oil lines?
Roy

X2

I added an aftermarket Hayden trans cooler to my car, but as Roy suggested, I didn't maintain the stock trans cooling lines in the radiator. As a result, it does take awhile longer for the trans fluid to heat up on cooler mornings, but not using the internal radiator also meant less potential leaks from multiple line connections. The added engine cooling gained by eliminating the trans cooling lines from the radiator was just a bonus.

[Ldub]

Mmmmmm-K...

How'z-A-bout plumbing it with a couple of ball valves, so the supply/return lines to the auxiliary cooler can be omitted from the circuit?

Cool in the summer months, warm during the long season.

[Zu4two]

I left the stock cooler in line. All the info I found said you shouldn't bypass the stock cooler, both to help warm up in the cold and also an increase in cooling capacity in the heat. I just pulled off the left hose to the stock cooler and replaced it with the hoses to the aux cooler.

What's this "long season" you speak of Larry?

[Ldub]

What's this "long season" you speak of Larry?

It's the one where your elders wear "long handled underwear"