Thread: P38 auto oil cooler into TD5 D2

Originally Posted by Slunnie

My radiator cleaning wand would never get down to the ATF cooler and you couldn't clean through the other radiator packs to clear the mud. Unless the radiator was pulled.

But I doubt may would do that every time it gets dropped into muddy water - it only takes one plunging to plug up the ATF cooler.

But, if people want to risk a few thousand in tranny rebuilds.... go for it.

Pull the top mounts, place a piece of cardboard to protect the radiator from fan and lean the assembly back....

I know this works, as I replaced the P38 cooler which was supplied with a crack in the weld this way!

A good bash plate under the bar work stops the mud piling in really well too...


And for other poster - full sized IC wont gain any benefit over improved unit for std area... Too large an IC will induce LAG that you will hate...
Efficiency and Flow are more important

Originally Posted by Tombie

Pull the top mounts, place a piece of cardboard to protect the radiator from fan and lean the assembly back....

I know this works, as I replaced the P38 cooler which was supplied with a crack in the weld this way!

A good bash plate under the bar work stops the mud piling in really well too...

Thats a massive process on the pre-updates. To undo those mounts is a headlight trim out, headlights out, grill out, horn out affair. I understand they sorted this as one of the mods on the update, but the preupdate doesn;t let you easily get to the mount bolts to undo them.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Thats a massive process on the pre-updates. To undo those mounts is a headlight trim out, headlights out, grill out, horn out affair. I understand they sorted this as one of the mods on the update, but the preupdate doesn;t let you easily get to the mount bolts to undo them.

I did a radiator change on an update the other day.

All except for headlight trim/headlights had to be removed to remove the intercooler to then remove the radiator. Compared with the simple job it is on a P38A, it's a pain in the backside.

Its not as though you had anything else to do-----

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Its not as though you had anything else to do-----

I did, actually - but I need the brownie points with the LR workshop to get my LPG system fixed.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Pix now, sketch later.

Sorry about the delay:

Originally Posted by twr7cx

What cooler have you used there? Doesn't look like either the P38 or TD5 unit (not the right shape)?

I'd like to **** mine in order to enable me to fit a full size manual intercooler in there from the UK.

Sorry.

It's the unit sold by Davis Performance Landys. It'd be a good replacement if you wanted to fit that intercooler!

Thanks for that. They're very similair in design and size to a Mazda RX7 engine oil cooler that I have sitting here. I also found a PWR universal transmission oil cooler and genuine Ford unit from a Falcon.