Derale Series 9000 Plate-Fin Transmission Cooler w/ NPT Inlets - Class V

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Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna take a look at this to Derale 9000 Series Plate and Fin Transmission Cooler with the NPT inlets. Now, vast majority of automatic transmission failures are a direct result of overheating, and towing can place an extra strain on your transmission causing it to get hot, and an aftermarket transmission cooler can help prevent overheating, and extend the life of your vehicle's transmission, and even if you don't tow, keeping your transmission cooler can be beneficial. Even a relatively small drop in fluid temperature can almost double the transmission's life, and increased its performance. Now, most of the factory cooling systems are adequate at best, rarely maintaining your transmission's fluid within the ideal operating range of about 160 to 200 degrees. So adding a transmission cooler is not difficult, and it can even extend the life of your vehicle, and ensure that it functions at its best.

Now, one of the more popular cooling systems is this radiator style, it's called a plate and fin heat exchanger. This provides increased surface area, so the fluids can spread out along the fin chambers to cool faster. Just wanna zoom in to give you a better look at it. You can see the plates that run horizontally, and then the fence that go up and down to help cool it. Now, this unit is perfect for light to medium duty use and occasional towing.

This is recommended for full size trucks and SUVs. Does have a gross vehicle weight rating of 24,000 pounds, and this will greatly extend the transmission life by preventing heat related transmission failures, improve shifting performance, and it improves overall performance when you're towing. Now, in addition to the increased surface area, this cooler also features a nice turbulator technology where by the fluids are agitated continuously not only to facilitate heat transfer, but also prevent any undesirable dropping pressure. It does use a furnace brace aluminum construction, has a nice black coating on it for protection. Does use 1 1/4 inch wide turbulator plates for more efficient cooling.

A few specs on this, if you look at the top, you can see the two inlets, the inlet size is a half inch NPT size. Few measurements, the distance between those inlets, center to center, is right at 8 1/2 inches. Overall dimensions on this, if we do the overall width, from this side to this side, is gonna be right at about 9 3/4 inches wide. The overall height on it, from very bottom to very top of the mounting plate, is 10 5/8 inches tall. Total depth on the unit is only about 1 1/4 inches deep, and the last thing to give you is the mounting dimensions.

If you notice the back here, there's two holes here, two at the bottom, those are your mounting holes. So horizontally, center to center of the mounting hole, is right at 6 3/4 inches, and the height, center to center on the mounting holes, it's right at 9 7/8 inches. But that should do it for the review on this Derale 9,000 Series Plate and Fin Transmission Cooler with the NPT inlets..