anyone use an external tranny filter? any recomendations? if you use an external one do you still need to use the internal one?

 

You still need to use an internal filter and service it. For this reason I don't feel an external filter is worth it.

 

Spend the money on a complete flush and fill. Have that done once a year in between regular filter changes and you will be better off. I usually check for coupons for local shops because it is a little pricey. If you really want to add to your tranny get a bigger pan or cooler or both.

 

I have an external spin on filter, I have heard to many horror stories of Converters spitting material out thru the coolers then into the pan where it can mess up the governer solenoid.

I mounted mine just below the coolant/tranny exchanger and also plumbed in a psi xmitter to monitor TC lock up PSI,

I use a basic PH8 filter size but stick with the pure one filters. If you do toast a TC at least most of the particles will be caught in the filter, and may not ruin the rest of the tranny...

 

I did a external for the reason of running ful syn tranny fluid ... I will go 60 miles on my syn fluid , they say it's good for 100,000 but if I wanted to service the filter I would have to drop the pan to remover the filter and that defeats the whole purpose ...so now I can just unscrew the filter every 10,000 miles or so and put a new one on ...its great but was alot of work and if your not doing it for that purpose I wound not recomend it !
I did all my lines at the same time ...You can order all the fittings and hose's and even a 20 micron filter with bypass valve .
I even installed a gauge on the side of my housing so I could tell my trans pressure ...
Yes it is a little over kill but it worked for me ... I have 20,000 on my set-up .

Greg

 

where did you get the the fittings and bypass valve?

 

Mcmaster Carr has everything ... I did it a little overkill ...Look under parker reuseable hydraulic hose fittings ...I used the 1/2 inch on everything and I also used hose swivel fittings and adapters ...Make sure you use the the hose thats is used with the fittings ...I think I used SAE 100r1 .
Like I said I got a littled carried away ... mine cost me around 300 bucks ... but it is very nice and I will never have to worry about it !
When you do your connection to the tranny just use 1/4 npt ...some guys have a problem and will not agree with that ...it's fine I used 1/4 npt in the front and rear tranny and I have never had a problem !
Greg