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Just the truck. I've only ever had one occasion where I had to get the shovel out as a result of the trailer and that was more my fault for coming to a stop when I knew that I shouldn't have. In my experience, floatation/footprint is far less of an issue with trailers (no steering, no...

It's SOP for me to be pulling my M1082 down the beach at 30 mile stretches in axle-deep sand, so I'll take all the cooling I can get. :)

Yeah, it's that extra weight in the RV build combined with the 11 months a year 90 degree S. Texas heat that I want to add the aux cooler. But like you say, most trucks won't need it unless they are heavy towing.

That's my plan. Or I may go all ghetto red neck and delete the OEM cooler. I have a lot of research to do given mine is a C7 (no telling what the computers will do or think if I add or delete things), but I've seen CAT/Allison powered RVs with aux coolers so the basic idea is out there.

Yeah, it's a cooler. Never made sense to me that all cars with automatic transmissions ran "cooling" lines into the car/truck's radiator to be bathed in boiling coolant. But that's how it works. I'm adding a aux trans-cooler to my rig. It's the same one mounted upright on the M1089 wreckers...

I'm dreading the install of mine. It's three foot long with the outlets on the end. The frame section above the exhaust where I'm thinking I will place it is only like 40". The shelter is going to have to come off (which I thought I might get away w/o doing) if it's going to...

Meh, you could have gotten the proper color surplus lines if you had just been willing to part with 3x the money. Of course it would be rubber from the 90's. but at least it would be REAL lmtv military hose which as everyone knows rots far superior to fresh civilian hose. I won't say to...

Oh, don't get me started on water in a trans. He's my parts truck (that I was planning on fixing up). Oddly, this was NOT from radiator cross contamination. Best I can figure is they forded it with the plug out. /shrug

I'd relocate the sample port before shelling out several hundred bucks on a longer hose. I'm a rebel like that (ok, I'm poor but still). Thanks for the info. I'll have to look into if it will be wise to delete the front cooler. I can't think of any reason not to especially given that it's...

Not to hijack, but I wonder if this is what I picked up. I can't find a better image, but my cooler is BAE (it could have come from anything). Been contracted since '94 it appears... 30" x 20" by 9" (3" core) https://www.iso-group.com/NSN/2520-01-392-2330

5-ton the same as 2.5? I know some of the 5-tons had the aux cooler but what I'm ignorant of is if they also included the forward cooler. I'm wondering if I really need both coolers (the aux I'm adding is a MONSTER twice the size of what they put on the 5-tons. I'm somewhat surprised to hear...

That seems steep, but I should call around before I say that. Was that a hose shop or someplace like Granger?

I picked up this big bastard last month. BAE contracted it and I don't know what it was out of, but I think I may stuff it in my frame. It's NOS and cost me $50 but the bungs for the lines are 1.25" so I'll have to step down a hair, heh. It's 36" x 20" x 9" (with a 3" core)...

Good stuff here. I've got a big fan cooler that I intend to stuff into the back frame someday. Waiting until I get the box off to attempt it, but I'm going to start measuring my runs for lines and fab my brackets up.