✔️ YOUR OEM TRANS. OIL COOLER!!

[craig haymaker]

Another Craig Tech Tip here :
On the 2012-2014 LSx platformed bikes & trikes, take a close look at the lower weld attached transmission oil cooler. Upon close inspection I found that it's fins were very soft material, and were formed or bent in a "S" shaped manner - throughout the entire thickness ? As a result air or light would not go through it's core !
I called Saldana Racing Products, (they produce our LSx radiators) they sounded stumped, and said that it should not be this way ! So my dealer worked w/ BH to resolve this just barely still in warranty issue. From what I was told, the factory then went in search and outsourced a heavier grade oil cooler for Saldana to weld to the bottom of a new replacement radiator. And heavier indeed it is, now with much sturdier fins, clear clean air and light passage through it's core thickness, just like the radiator! I assume that this heavier grade cooler, has been welded to the radiators since ?
So 'em guys and gals. Craig H.

[2crzy]

That trans cooler that is on the bottom of the rad does absolutely nothing for cooling. The is no air flow down there for it. I took mine right off and put an oil cooler in front of the rad. My trans never gets over 150 now. The engine stays cool as well.

[craig haymaker]

2crzy, good input. So you cut the welds that hold the cooler to the radiator ? Craig H.

[2crzy]

Yes cut the welds and grind them smooth like the cooler was never there. It absolute garbage!!!!

[craig haymaker]

2crzy, so you felt it's location was the problem ? Ok, also was your oem cooler like mine, with soft folded fins, where neither air or light could pass through ?


Thanks, Craig H.