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Flex-A-Lite Transmission and Engine-Oil Coolers Overview

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Rick talk a little bit about
00:00:06.349 00:00:06.359 transmission coolers and engine oil
00:00:08.210 00:00:08.220 coolers today you might start by asking
00:00:10.730 00:00:10.740 why do you need a cooler at all well on
00:00:13.009 00:00:13.019 the transmission side of things hot
00:00:14.629 00:00:14.639 fluid is the number one cause of
00:00:16.340 00:00:16.350 deterioration of failure and
00:00:18.380 00:00:18.390 transmissions as a fluid heats up it can
00:00:20.900 00:00:20.910 no longer do its job of protecting their
00:00:22.580 00:00:22.590 internal components and you run into
00:00:24.980 00:00:24.990 premature wear slippage and transmission
00:00:27.859 00:00:27.869 failure very costly on the engine side
00:00:31.009 00:00:31.019 of things you have a similar situation
00:00:32.440 00:00:32.450 but it's at much more extreme conditions
00:00:35.810 00:00:35.820 engine oil sole purpose is to lubricate
00:00:38.060 00:00:38.070 the engine and when it gets too hot it's
00:00:40.310 00:00:40.320 just can't do that and you run into an
00:00:42.139 00:00:42.149 engine damage flex lights been in the
00:00:44.240 00:00:44.250 performance cooling business for more
00:00:45.709 00:00:45.719 than 50 years and this new line of
00:00:48.350 00:00:48.360 00:00:49.880 00:00:49.890 coolers sets a new bar in the industry
00:00:52.430 00:00:52.440 let's look first at the transmission
00:00:54.410 00:00:54.420 coolers these are stacked plate designs
00:00:56.900 00:00:56.910 so these are made of many plates that
00:00:59.540 00:00:59.550 are stacked together and then braised to
00:01:02.180 00:01:02.190 form a single unit these are 100%
00:01:04.609 00:01:04.619 aluminum which makes them very
00:01:06.230 00:01:06.240 lightweight but also very very strong
00:01:08.480 00:01:08.490 and rigid these have flanges at the top
00:01:10.640 00:01:10.650 and bottom to make mounting very easy
00:01:12.800 00:01:12.810 and a variety of applications but the
00:01:15.649 00:01:15.659 real magic is inside the Flex light
00:01:17.840 00:01:17.850 stack plate transmission cooler
00:01:19.910 00:01:19.920 unlike other plate style coolers that
00:01:22.039 00:01:22.049 are on the market we use a patented
00:01:24.080 00:01:24.090 dimpled plate technology this keeps the
00:01:26.539 00:01:26.549 fluid mixed as it passes through the
00:01:29.090 00:01:29.100 transmission cooler those dimpled plates
00:01:30.920 00:01:30.930 also add significantly to the strength
00:01:33.080 00:01:33.090 when these are braze together so each
00:01:35.179 00:01:35.189 one of these transmission coolers has a
00:01:36.800 00:01:36.810 500 psi burst strength now if you have
00:01:38.840 00:01:38.850 500 psi pressure in your transmission
00:01:40.460 00:01:40.470 you have another problem but it's not
00:01:42.140 00:01:42.150 going to cause a failure in the Flex
00:01:43.609 00:01:43.619 light transmission cooler these coolers
00:01:45.499 00:01:45.509 are available with both 3/8 inch barb
00:01:47.870 00:01:47.880 fittings or - 6 a.n we have a variety of
00:01:51.560 00:01:51.570 sizes that can work on anything from
00:01:53.929 00:01:53.939 very small passenger cars up to
00:01:57.010 00:01:57.020 heavy-duty pickup trucks that are used
00:01:59.179 00:01:59.189 for towing in addition to transmission
00:02:01.670 00:02:01.680 coolers that can be mounted in front of
00:02:03.170 00:02:03.180 the radiator we also have units that
00:02:05.480 00:02:05.490 come with an electric fan mounted to
00:02:07.580 00:02:07.590 them
00:02:07.910 00:02:07.920 now these allow you to mount this unit
00:02:10.249 00:02:10.259 anywhere it can go underneath the
00:02:11.660 00:02:11.670 vehicle they can go on the back of the
00:02:13.040 00:02:13.050 vehicle if it's a race
00:02:14.150 00:02:14.160 car it can be mounted to a rollcage also
00:02:16.760 00:02:16.770 by mounting the transmission cooler
00:02:18.050 00:02:18.060 somewhere besides in front of the
00:02:19.520 00:02:19.530 radiator you're reducing the amount of
00:02:21.860 00:02:21.870 hot air that goes into the radiator
00:02:23.750 00:02:23.760 allowing the radiator to do a much
00:02:25.580 00:02:25.590 better job of keeping the engine cool
00:02:27.110 00:02:27.120 now let's look at the engine oil coolers
00:02:29.720 00:02:29.730 the first thing you'll notice is that
00:02:31.310 00:02:31.320 these are thicker than the transmission
00:02:33.380 00:02:33.390 coolers that's because engine oil
00:02:35.120 00:02:35.130 viscosity is typically higher making the
00:02:36.890 00:02:36.900 oil thicker so in order to minimize oil
00:02:39.110 00:02:39.120 pressure drop we use broader or wider
00:02:42.200 00:02:42.210 stacked plates in here the internal
00:02:45.080 00:02:45.090 composition of these plates is also
00:02:46.670 00:02:46.680 different than the technology we use in
00:02:48.260 00:02:48.270 the transmission coolers instead of a
00:02:50.030 00:02:50.040 dimpled plate we use turbulator z'
00:02:52.310 00:02:52.320 inside each one of these plates to keep
00:02:54.830 00:02:54.840 the oil mixed by keeping the oil mixed
00:02:57.110 00:02:57.120 we're improving the heat rejection of
00:02:58.820 00:02:58.830 these units making them more efficient
00:03:00.500 00:03:00.510 by eliminating the possibility of a cool
00:03:02.660 00:03:02.670 outer layer of oil setting up around the
00:03:05.420 00:03:05.430 outside of the plate and the hot fluid
00:03:07.940 00:03:07.950 passing right through the middle it also
00:03:09.920 00:03:09.930 makes these units very very strong when
00:03:11.780 00:03:11.790 they're braze together that turbulator
00:03:13.910 00:03:13.920 fuses with the top and bottom of the
00:03:16.010 00:03:16.020 plate and this also has a 500 psi burst
00:03:19.490 00:03:19.500 strength now let's talk a little bit
00:03:20.930 00:03:20.940 about the performance of these new
00:03:22.640 00:03:22.650 coolers the transmission coolers provide
00:03:25.130 00:03:25.140 nearly twice the heat rejection or twice
00:03:27.380 00:03:27.390 the cooling capability of a typical
00:03:28.850 00:03:28.860 low-cost cooler on the engine oil side
00:03:31.340 00:03:31.350 things are even more impressive these
00:03:33.199 00:03:33.209 coolers provide four times the heat
00:03:35.840 00:03:35.850 rejection or cooling capability of a
00:03:37.490 00:03:37.500 typical low-cost cooler in addition
00:03:39.740 00:03:39.750 these have nearly 10 times less oil
00:03:42.500 00:03:42.510 pressure drop than the typical low-cost
00:03:45.080 00:03:45.090 cooler go to flex light comm to learn
00:03:47.840 00:03:47.850 more about our full line of performance
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