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Originally Posted by sick472
The path should be from the tranny to the radiator then to the cooler and back to the tranny.
The tranny cooler should be in front of the radiator (if that's not obvious). This means it will likely be the most efficient in cooling the fluid. So the radiator drops it potentially down to the coolant temp then the tranny cooler takes it down even further.
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your path is right on, rad first. but the radiator mounted cooler is tremendously more efficient than the one out in the wind, unless the external one is very very large. the contact of fluid to coolant (through the cooler) is always more efficient than convection of fluid to air (through the plates), and convection is also subject to things like ambient temp and humidity. think of it this way, the cooler in the rad tank has the entire surface of the rad to do convection with. hard to beat that.
edit: I forgot why I started to reply. I just got an eastwood bender from jegs and it made short work of my power steering line which was long enough but bent 90 degrees the wrong way. I recommend it