I had a 2008 DC w/Tow Package and I remember the tranny cooler off to the side. I thought the same thing when I looked at my 2010 DC w/Tow Package and wondered where it was.

Here is a shot of the front of the truck (2010 w/Tow)

What I am thinking is that they moved the tranny cooler directly in front of the Radiator... (and made it bigger) could be off on this, but I don't have a non-tow package truck to compare to. Look at the pic below and you'll see a thinner, black radiator in front of the larger, primary silver radiator. I think it is just beefed up and looks like one unit now.

Lastly, here is a pick from another forum that shows the previous style. Note the primary silver radiator does not have a thinner black one in front - obvious to see that the thinner black one is the tranny cooler off to the side.

 

From my understanding the top portion is transmission cooler and the rest is ac condenser.if you look down behind the bumper there is another cooler which is connected to the power steering pump.

 

I was thinking that the entire black radiator in front was for the air conditioning condenser. How did they split it up then? I have the transmission cooler on the side but there is still a black radiator with the air conditioning hoses attached and the actual engine coolant radiator behind it which extends all the way from the top of the engine compartment to almost the skid plate, whereas the smaller black one in front of that is not full height.

 

Traced the tubing... The two black tubes on the left run down and back to the transmission (shown below). The silver on the right (not seen in pic below) appears to run to the A/C.

We need the same pic from a 2010 that does not have the Tow Package.

The power steering does have a 'cooler' behind the bumper, but it is really just heat fins on the 'U' shaped pipe.

 

In the above picture, the silver radiator is the A/C condenser. The engine coolant radiator is behind that.

So one would assume they stuck with that design and apparently made the transmission cooler bigger. The problem with that is that area to the right of the old transmission cooler was where the supercharger liquid cooler went. So does that mean no supercharger at all for the 2010 Tundras with tow packages?

 

hey Toxarch what air horns are you using?

 

I have a 2010 with factory tow packag and I am confused by the location of the cooler. I thought the two tubes behind bumper was the tranny cooler.:banghead: Mine clearly stated on the window sticker "supplemental transimission cooler". I have a TRD off road double cab 5.7L 4x2 truck.

 

Does your radiator look like this?

The front black one is your transmission cooler. The silver one is your A/C condenser. Behind that is your engine coolant radiator.

The two tubes behind the bumper is the power steering fluid coolers.

 

is it me or are the 2010's trans coolers 5x larger than the previous coolers.

 

Pretty big when you factor in the width of the thing.

 

I know this was an old thread, but i was looking at a 12 DC at the dealer when I got my filter. The Transmission cooler is different than my 10. My 10 looks different than the other 10. I have the one on the passenger side. My truck was build in September 09. I wonder if they changed it during the model year.

 

The change occured during the 2010 production run. Early trucks have the cooler on the pass side. Late 2010 build dates have the new style cooler.

My 2010 DC has the old style cooler, too.

 

All I know is we better not take a bird strike in the front. The new style trans cooler/AC condensor is 912 bucks. The old style, the stand alone trans cooler is still pretty pricy at 560 bucks. Here's the kicker, you have to buy them from the dealer. No one is selling these after market yet. Another one of those "propritary" issues me thinks.

If any of you "search wizards" come across someone selling these things after market, I want to know ASAP.

Thanks

Kirk

 

Have you called 1-800-radiator? Hard to beat their radiator prices and they sell tons of radiators, so if anybody would have one, I would think they would.

 

No luck on the 1-800-radiator. Parts are dealer only

ko