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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, on our 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Derale Series 8000 platefin transmission cooler. This is what the transmission cooler is gonna look like, installed on our Jeep. Now, clearly, we have the grill removed. And we have it off, that way, you can actually see what we're talking about here. We can check the product out.

But obviously, that grill is gonna be able to get put back in place, and return everything to that stock appearance. But more or less, what the transmission cooler is gonna do is work in conjunction with your factory transmission cooler. And that's just gonna help bring those transmission fluid temperatures down, okay And the cooler the fluid, the better it is for your transmission. Now, obviously, there is an operating temperature that the transmission operates at ideally. And that's not, this really isn't going to affect that, per se.

It's gonna help keep the temps within that range, more or less, all right And that's gonna extend the life of your transmission, help improve shifts, and things like that, which is really important for these Jeeps. Majority of time, generally speaking, you get a Jeep like this, you're excited about it, you want to make it look cool, you put big ol' tires on it, right I know that's what I would do. And what that does is that puts more rotational mass on your vehicle, and that makes your vehicle work harder, and makes your transmission work harder. Not to mention, these are relatively capable, you get people, big tires, pulling a big trailer, things like that, and really working that transmission out. So, having an additional cooler like this will help keep things under control.

One thing I think would be cool is to actually see this in action, see it working, and everything else. So, why don't we go ahead, pull this outside, start it up, and get some fluid moving through here so we can actually see how it works. We have the Jeep up to about operating temperature, and we're in park, all right So we're, the transmission's not pumping fluid like crazy, or we really don't have a load on it, but we can still get an idea of how this works. So, on this side here is where the fluid is gonna come into the cooler. And I have a temperature gun here.

And if you look at the temperature, it looks like it's hovering at 99 degrees, close to 100, little over 100, all right And so what's gonna happen is, that hot fluid is gonna come across, run through, and then the heat is gonna be dispersed. And so, if we take a temperature reading of over here, where the fluid's coming back out of it, it's at 95 degrees, so about five degrees difference. You're gonna have, your fluid is gonna be five degrees cooler, just as an example, how we're sitting right here, running back into the transmission. So, it's gonna run cooler, and which, in turn, is gonna be better for the transmission. Now, keep in mind, too, your results are probably gonna be a lot higher and a lot better whenever you have this under load, and you're actually driving down the road, and that air flow is going across your transmission cooler, helping to disperse that heat. But I figured it was pretty cool to check out that there's a five, sixdegree difference, just sitting here at idle, barely at operating temperature. So, we know it's working, and we know it's gonna work even better whenever we're driving down the road under a load. So these Series 8000 transmission coolers come in a ton of different sizes. This one, I would say, is on the smaller side. And honestly, we have a lot of room to work with here. So, I think it'd be cooler to use a bigger one. I would probably opt for one a little bit larger, but that's just me. Every little bit does help. So this size definitely will help keep to, keep those temperatures lower, and your transmission operating smoothly, and everything under control. Now, you may have noticed that there's a couple different types of, or styles of transmission coolers. This is the platefin style. And honestly, I prefer this style over the tubefin. All right, the platefin, everything is kind of enclosed. You know what I mean It's hard metal up top here, and on the bottom and on the sides, those plates run through, and this is really hard to damage, you know what I mean This is almost replicating an OEMtype cooler. And so, it's gonna be really durable and hold up. With the tubefin style ones, those essentially, these fins in here are kinda exposed, and there's a metal tube that runs through it like this. And in the pas