Guest butlersZ Posted August 25, 2004 Share Posted August 25, 2004 Ok, quick question about powerglide. I just recently installed a powerglide I got from a friend into my 280Z, where the tranny lines come out there are two plugs, now is there a reason for the plugs being there? can I run the tranny without a tranny cooler of some sort and leave the plugs in place? Never seen this before, I'm used to using a tranny cooler. My friend seemed to know nothing about the plugs he never ran the tranny. It does have a 3000 stall and I intend to use it for drag only.I don't know the tranny's previous history and have never ran a powerglide before, so I thought I would ask. Would be a lot cleaner and nicer not to have mount my cooler and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jap tin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 Run a cooler. I run my glide drag only and run a cooler. I know some guys that tow around and loop the line back into the trans but I like the idea of keeping the fluid cool for the later rounds. When you go on the brake the fluid temp goes up like right now. I also run a synthetic trans fluid as it also handles the heat better than regular trans fluid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest butlersZ Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 What type of synthetic fluid do you run? I'm definitely going to run a cooler, right now I'm just using the standard dexron tranny fluid. Been thinking about installing a medium shift kit, and A friend was saying that I would then HAVE to run Type F fluid, I'm not taking his word for it though. I would like to use a synthetic for the added benefits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jap tin Posted August 26, 2004 Share Posted August 26, 2004 I run Mobil 1 synthetic in the trans. Have run it for years and never a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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