$400.00 bucks total thats including labour and tranny fluid, my 2 lines running to the tranny cooler popped this morning and the 2 lines need be replaced and have to be ordered from GM, each line is over $100.00 bucks.
An oil cooler extends the life of an engine by specifically keeping the oil 'cooler' that what the regular cooling system can do (which is designed to cool the entire engine). If your car has some SEEPAGE around the cooler and/or lines that is not the end of the world; but if it LEAKS repair it. Since it is external to the engine I would not expect it to be a major repair.
Cooler lines should fit.Check and see if you have a 904 or 727 transmission. It should work fine, Good luck.
yes, anytime you have to take a radiator out of an automatic car the tranny lines have to come off the radiator.
Where is it leaking from? Oil pan, intake, valve covers, oil cooler lines? welding
transmission cooler lines runs from transmission to the radiator
Leaning over the top of the radiator it should have 2 medal transmission cooler lines on the left side of it. If it has a engine oil cooler then it will have 2 big lines on the right side of the radiator too. That makes 4 lines.
If there are lines coming from the transmission to the radiator, it has a cooler in the radiator. If there are lines from the transmission to an external heat exchanger, that would be an auxiliary cooler.
That should be the window defroster.
The oil filter is in that area behind the air cleaner box, it could be leaking around it's gasket or loose. The oil cooler lines and lines leading to the engine could be leaking too, they are sealed by o-rings which you can get at an auto parts store as an oil cooler repair kit.
The 1999 - 2006 acura tl's don't have a transmission oil cooler. no cooler lines to the standard radiator either. Phil
Depending on where the leak is, if there is a weakness in the 350 it was with the oil cooler lines. It turns out that most of the oil leaks from the cooler lines has nothing to do with seals. It's a problem with the cooler line.
Most oil cooler lines run from the transmission to the radiator and can easily be seen from under the vehicle.