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Improved Cooling 850

posted by  Hamfisted on  Wed Feb 9 16:04 CST 2005
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Look at installing an external tranny cooler, like the Hayden Rapid Cool, in front of the A/C condenser. Unfortunately the tranny is the weak link in the 850, worse in the Turbo models because they used the same tranny that was designed for the non-Turbo but doubled the horsepower, and didn't offer an external cooler to help the poor thing. So the tranny depends solely on the radiator for it's cooling. How good is that? The tranny holds 8 quarts. Try flushing it and refilling with Mobil One synthetic ATF or Quaker State synthetic blend. But if you're already smelling burnt flesh coming out of your tranny it's on life-support already. Are you getting any DTC codes from the A-1 socket of the DTC boxes?


Mike
'95 850T






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