Major problem need help

[Vs_Esteem]

hi i have a big prob,i was servicing the trans on a vs auto series 2 and i have a cooler on the front of the car and theres two hoses at the bottom just behind the radiator,1 goes to the top of the radiator left hand side botton of radiator and the other go to the cooler at the front then the cooler line goes to the top of the the radiator,the trans oil is really bad its dark brown and looks like engine oil,and i broke the hoses going to the trans on the bottom of it and it broke when i tried undoing it and now im stuck,need help please

[Vs_Esteem]

i buggered up i ment 1 hose goes to the bottom radiator and 1 hose goes to the cooler on bottom and the top cooler hose goes to the top of the radiator,and i snapped it at the bottom of the cooler,i started the car quick to pump it out and its brown and looks more like engine oil,i looked at the engine oil and its low and the trans oil isnt (not sure tho),is the cooler for the engine oil or the trans oil.

[Vs_Esteem]

i think its the trans oil,the hose i broke where do i hook it to the radiator cooler,if i take the cooler of and the hoses and just having it going through the stock cooler wat hose goes where.

[Cheap6]

The cooler is for the trans. oil and has no connection to the engine oil system.

If you want to bypass the external oil cooler, the bottom inlet to the radiator cooler is 'in', the top is 'out'. The way the lines from the trans. run is the same way i.e. lower 'in', upper 'out'. I doubt it will make much difference beyond perhaps flushing anything trapped in the radiator cooler back into the trans. if they are connected the wrong way anyway, at least temporarily (until you can get another external cooler).

[Vs_Esteem]

thanks mate,so the lower is in and top is out so all i gotta do is try to get the fitting off the hose i snapped of the cooler and hook it to the top of the radiator and its all good,i wasnt sure what 1 is the inlet & outlet,thanks heaps mate

[Vs_Esteem]

ok,if i do what ur saying i think the previous owner has had the cooler hooked up back 2 front and thats why the trans oil is brown and cooked,the inlet was on the top of the cooler and the outlet was on the bottom,before the hoses go anywhere,what 1 is the outlet & inlet,i dont wanna hook it up if he has buggered up somewhere,i cant really anyway cause the damn hose is to shirt to make the hoses go to the right spot.

[greenacc]

It won't make much difference which way you hook it up , it just helps keep air bubble out of the system by pumping it from bottom up so you dont get a waterfall effect inside the cooler. The fluid will flow either way so don't panic

[Vs_Esteem]

ok thanks,got another damn problem now,the fitting got stripped taking the hose off,so i gotta get a new fitting for it to go onto top of the radiator fitting,if everything wasnt so damn tight i would of finished and wouldnt of broken the cooler,might goto upullit and get a hose or another fitting

[Not_An_Abba_Fan]

Less haste. Be more gentle with them and they don't break.

[Vs_Esteem]

yeah learnt my lesseon the hard way,get a pro to do the service next time and let them deal with what ever they break

[DannyboyDS]

Originally Posted by Vs_Esteem

yeah learnt my lesseon the hard way,get a pro to do the service next time and let them deal with what ever they break

no, no, no, You have allready cost yourself money learning this lesson, now it is learnt. Do you not see that you have given yourself something by tackling this ordeal yourself, information, you now know better and next time you will be able to do it yourself, rather then blow an extra $80 ontop of materials for something you have learned yourself, taught yourself.

Don't feel bad for making a mistake either, once bitten twice shy, I say good work and goodluck.

[Vs_Esteem]

yea good lesson to learn only once,went to upullit today and took me ages just to find a commodore with its radiator still in it,all i found was 2 that had head ons soit was hard to pull out,i got what i wanted a fitting for top radiator cooling system and a hose,got home and turnt out i didnt need a new fittting,the hose i got had a good thread in it to just screw it back on and fix the cross threaded bit but the other end was a different hydrolic fitting so i cut the steel pipe and the other and just got couple inches of old trans hose and put it on and got two hose clamps and bobs ya uncle it worked,couldnt find any decent ext coolers to pull off so il buy 1 later on.