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Radiator/Heater Core Q

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This is probably a really stupid question and I should know this but I was following my heator core pipe up to the front of the car where it goes into and it goes into it looks like a smaller radiator that sits in front of my radiator. Is this a part of my radiator? This car use to be an AOD, Again i feel really stupid asking this haha. Can someone help me out b/c if i dont need it, its gone.
 
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that sounds like a tranny cooler. probably a aftermarket piece. Your heater core should't be going to it. the heater core should be coming off the 2 lines on your water pump.
 

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That shouldn't be the heater core, as mentioned above. But that is assuming a stock setup; who knows what the previous owners have done!

There is also a cooler for the p/s fluid in front of the radiator (which is just a tube, no fins), and a condenser for the a/c (which does look like a rad).

Is this mystery cooler hooked up to anything? If it was an aftermarket cooler hooked up for the aod, then it should be useless now with a t5.

jason
 

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86bluecobra said:
that sounds like a tranny cooler. probably a aftermarket piece. Your heater core should't be going to it. the heater core should be coming off the 2 lines on your water pump.
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Sorry sorry i meant A/C line. I thought it might of been a AOD tranny cooler myself, but it looks pretty big, like as wide as my radiator, and its not my radiator b/c I have taken that out already.
 

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vristang said:
That shouldn't be the heater core, as mentioned above. But that is assuming a stock setup; who knows what the previous owners have done!

There is also a cooler for the p/s fluid in front of the radiator (which is just a tube, no fins), and a condenser for the a/c (which does look like a rad).

Is this mystery cooler hooked up to anything? If it was an aftermarket cooler hooked up for the aod, then it should be useless now with a t5.

jason
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Is the condenser for the A/C as big as the rad? b/c it is hooked up to the A/C, i dont know why I said heater core haha.
 
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now its all starting to make sense.
 
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