transmission cooler Dodge Intrepid

Is it really necessary? I'm doing no towing and rarley do many steep hills. I have a leak in mine and I want to tell them to just cap it off.

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Mark Corbelli
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Do you have the just the radiator cooler, or the *external* one?

If it is the external one, I appreciate you situation. The one in my Stratus developed a leak, and a new one was $320.

The external one is connected in-line with the radiator cooler.

I fear that parts for Chryslers are going to get more expensive, and harder to find with their future uncertain.

While there are many good aftermarket parts, this particular one was OEM only.

-KM

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KirkM

You could always cut the hoses and splice in a Hayden (or other similar brand) aftermarket transmission cooler from the parts store yourself. Total cost would be ~$80 for the top of the line cooler, $50 for a regular one.

Both coolers (in rad and external) are a good idea on LH cars, the 42LE tends to generate a lot of heat. The early LH cars only had the in-radiator cooler, and we never had problems with ours, but there were statistically a lot of problems that encouraged Chrysler to add the oil-to-air cooler on later models.

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Steve

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