Seems like I read somewhere that it took a special tool to remove the trans lines from the radiator on an H3. Now I am searching for it and can't find it. Did I dream it? I am installing my new radiator either today or this weekend. Is a special tool needed to remove the trans lines from the radiator?

Have any of you that have done it installed an additional trans cooler while you were in there? If so, did it make enough difference to be worth the investment?

Thanks.

 

Okay, so apparently this is not something that a lot of people know about. So I'll try to get a few pictures as I go so maybe it will help others who do this...

So I have taken my front pan off and everything and it appears that the transmissions lines going into my radiator use some sort of slip ring connector. Unfortunately, the radiator that I ordered looks like it takes a regular screw-in line so this may not happen today.

I'll post more in a little while after I dig a little deeper... I wonder if maybe the 06 uses a different radiator?

 

what kinda of rad you putting in?

 

I ordered it off of a site that says Outlaw Radiators but it turned out to be just another name for 1-800-Radiators. When I called back the guy told me that 1-800-Radiators doesn't even offer a radiator for the H3 and this must be a number from Outlaw before they bought them out.

My thinking is that the 06 must take a screw in style trans line while maybe the 07 and up take the push-in. I found a screw in to push in adaptor at NAPA but the threaded end wasn't big enough.

A guy at the garage here told me to check with a local radiator guy he knew about rebuilding my stock one. Apparently he has rebuilt stock ones for him for $75.

 

after what I just exp. my trans cooler bursting and needed new rad, tranny....I would want an aluminum one and separate the trans-cooler from rad...