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[Ecotec] Power steering cooler, need pointers

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Quick one...

I want to rig up a spare trans cooler to use as a power steering cooler.

So which line should i be connecting it inline with? ... if we are looking at the p.s reservoir, the one higher up or the lower one?

It's an ecotec v6

Thanks...
 

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you want to fit it into the return line. probably the smaller of the 2 lines going into the reservoir if memory serves me correctly.

makes a huge difference. i could almost burn my finger after a spirited drive in the VS on the power steering fluid temps, on the VN with a cooler fitted it's only ever warm and the pump still sound like new unlike the VS which is very noisy :(
 

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can anyone please confirm? If I am to fit the cooler in line with the return line, which one will that be? top or bottom?
 

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the small one which will be the top.
 

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ah nice. Thanks for that, someone said the same on another forum... just wanted to be 100% sure
 
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