well, had my trans rebuilt last week, and had them throw on some extras, including an external cooler, which was silver and looked funny to me, so i decided to paint it (2000 degree enamel)

before


after (not sure whats up with the lump in my bumper cover, i think from when i glued it i missed a spot and the heat made it come up? not up in the first pic, yay something else to fix lol)


some diamond plate to cover my radiator and pull my fan shroud up, it was sagging really bad, i noticed there were some slits in the top edge of the radiator, just enough to get a little 1/2" pan head in withought doing any damage



i know the rest of the engine and truck are filthy, just not the best weather recently to clean her, of and on rain and t storms all week, once its gonna be nice for a week ill clean her up.

 

are you kidding me? you have the 2nd cleanest engine bay next to silverdoge! how about some diy tips... frankly i'm a little skittish about introducing water into that area.

 

What does that mean?

 

yea i dont really use water, just degreaser and a rag, then armor all the rubber and plastic

i mean once its gonna be sunny out for a while, no rain in the forecast ill clean the truck up. shes filthy from riding around offroad, and all the pollen.

 

The engine looks good, i'll give you that. But as far as the tranny cooler goes, isn't that a bit small? I mean every little bit helps don't get me wrong, but from the pictures it looks like you don't have the towing cooler between the radiator and condenser. (I didn't either until I pulled this one from another truck).



I probably would have opted to get something at least this size, if not bigger if I were you. Also the paint decreases your cooling efficiency as well. Either way, so long as your happy that is all that matters. Just wanted to point that out in case you run onto a deal for a bigger cooler down the road. Wish you luck!

 

Let me clarify what my question meant in the quote.

Hey, that sounds like my truck.
Yeah, my dashboard is a baby chit yellow, what about it...

 

I think your truck popped a boner.

 

lol purpl, you cant see when the hoods down so i dont care

my truck runs just under 180 even when we had a hot streak, i dont think the paint decreases it, ive painted the rad when i bought it.

and that external cooler is in line with my regular cooler, so i have 2, and i dont ever tow, so i dont think ill have any problems. i just wanted to keep it a little cooler than the stock cooler to extend trans life.

 

Well I'm not surprised to come in here and see more more sexay truck pics Lookin good as always Lord


oh, and LOLOL about the 'dirty filthy truck'..... I don't think they made em that clean even when they were new

 

Yeah, those me*icans are messy. I found a half eaten taco in the center console of a Ram in '98.