I popped the radiator on my '99 Cherokee on the last overland trip, and am in the process of stuffing in a new unit. When pulling the whole thing, I started thinking....
The XJ has a nasty issue with lacking trans cooling from the cooler built into the cold end radiator tank, so its common to add an external stacked plate unit. When I opened up my new radiator today, I found the internal trans cooler was either tube/fin or bar/plate unit... all with NPT fittings. I am headed to the JY to pick up an extternal unit, but I was thinking of omitting the factory cooler, and pluming water through it as a heat exchanger.
Has this been tried, and do you all think its a feasible idea to use the internal unit as a heat exchanger?
The XJ has a nasty issue with lacking trans cooling from the cooler built into the cold end radiator tank, so its common to add an external stacked plate unit. When I opened up my new radiator today, I found the internal trans cooler was either tube/fin or bar/plate unit... all with NPT fittings. I am headed to the JY to pick up an extternal unit, but I was thinking of omitting the factory cooler, and pluming water through it as a heat exchanger.
Has this been tried, and do you all think its a feasible idea to use the internal unit as a heat exchanger?