Aux transmission cooler recommendations

[SMOKNZ]

I'm going on a trip this next weekend. Driving the truck today for it's first long trip since adding gauges(100+ miles) unloaded thru Milwaukee, I noticed the transmission temps start to climb putzing thru 10 miles of stoplights and construction. After it got above 180, I stopped for lunch. I noticed a puddle (size of my palm) under the tranny. I also noticed this while camping a few weekends ago. I got lost and was towing the camper around a lake at about 25 mph. It seems to me that if I am going slower than highway speed, the tranny cooler isn't getting enough air. I have read posts on the early SD's tranny coolers not being to good. The location of the cooler behind the intercooler and AC condencer leaves a little to be desired as far as cool air is concerned. I would like to add an AUX cooler in front of the condenser. Will the kits you can buy at the local AutoZone suffice? I installed on on my last tow vehicle and it worked great, it was a 25,000 GVWR cooler. Reading a few posts on guy swapping in a 6.0 cooler there wa some discussion about 1/2" to 3/8" adaptors, are the cooler lines really that large? I'm used to the old 5/16" double flared fittings on the chevy vehicles. Will a kit like this work on a Ford. I would rather not find out 4 hours from home that the tranny fluid is cooked (looks and smells fine now though) Thanks for the input!

Bill

 

[oi8228oi]

http://www.dieselsite.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=480
the best your gonna find and its a direct replacement if your still worried add a frame rail cooler as well theres no reason you trany will ever over heat with the 2 working together. not that i would expect it to over heat with the V10 cooler(40k GVWR)

 

[HTRDDSL]

No offence but I switched to the 6.0 cooler out of an 04 model last year and what a huge difference. The 6.0 cooler is about 2,5 times larger than the one in your truck. I also installed an aftermarket tranny gauge and you can really see the difference. I installed the gauge before I changed the cooler and I see about a 40 degree difference. And I also bolts right in. Bolts match perfectly. Got mine on Ebay real cheap. You just have to adapt the tranny cooler line from 1/2 inch to 3/8 and that's easy. Cost you about 20 bucks worth of parts.