Thanks BigRig, I have only had this beast for 2 weeks, and have noticed the engine is getting very warm, and the trans is getting very very hot on normal driving.
It had the head changed and modifed at some stage, so the 40mm hose from the bottom of the radiator has a tee-section into a 3/4" heater pipe going into the bottom of the thermostat housing (2 feeds in), and the top of the radiator 40mm pipe to the top of the thermostat housing has a tee-section into another 3/4" pipe then a 6 way splitter with 6 OFF 5/16" hoses going into each cylinder. Asking around this was done as a fix to the overheat and head cracking issues.
I dumped the coolant?! - What coolant, dirty brown sludge...so much for the service upkeep.
So far I have changed:
- All belts (they were stuffed anyway)
- Radiator ($350 for re-core)
- Radiator, tranmission and heater hoses
- In the middle of fixing the air filter box as it's all cracked - very hard to get, by the way.
I was just thinking whilw I'm repairing, to get "peace of mind" and elininate the possible of the trans crapping out when you least expect it, just to get it done.
To install a thermostat, I was quoted $295.00 for just the parts, as below.
http://www.automatictransmission.com...p?NewsId=12031
So my thinking is $150 for a transmission cooler with overheat problem fixed vs $295 to see if I have a problem.
You thoughts...