H3 Couple questions about trans coolers

[Simplelife]

Wow really good price ! What setup are you running. ?

 

[rsc]

Question: it's been posed that an aluminum radiator is better than a plastic one in terms of preventing transmission cooler failure. Help me understand that idea. Isn't the trans cooler simply a cooler placed within the radiator, essentially independent of the engine coolant tank whether that's aluminum or plastic? I don't think the plastic tank failures correlate to the transmission cooler failures. Am I incorrect?

Sounds like you have seen through the hype, smoke and mirrors. In and of itself, the aluminum radiator won't fix the transmission contamination issue. That the internal cooler fails is in no way related to the material of the tanks or frame.