2008 suburban engine oil cooler and transmission cooler
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2008 suburban engine oil cooler and transmission cooler
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New to this forum site and excited to get some feedback. I have a 2008 Suburban 1500 LT2. We just bought our first 26 ft travel trailer yesterday, and I have some towing type questions. Does anyone know if the LT2 version came standard with an engine oil cooler and a transmission cooler. If not, anyone have any reccomendations on who sells them for the best price. I am fairly mechanically inclined, so are either of these items easy to install for a do-it-yourselfer? Thanks in advance for any input I can get!
New to this forum site and excited to get some feedback. I have a 2008 Suburban 1500 LT2. We just bought our first 26 ft travel trailer yesterday, and I have some towing type questions. Does anyone know if the LT2 version came standard with an engine oil cooler and a transmission cooler. If not, anyone have any reccomendations on who sells them for the best price. I am fairly mechanically inclined, so are either of these items easy to install for a do-it-yourselfer? Thanks in advance for any input I can get!
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your RPO code list in the glove box should help you decode some of that info..
also looking for added lines running to the radiator or to other coolers located at the front of the vehicle can be more obvious signs...
your RPO code list in the glove box should help you decode some of that info..
also looking for added lines running to the radiator or to other coolers located at the front of the vehicle can be more obvious signs...
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There is a small radiator in front of the main radiator, but that is the air conditioner cooler. I thought I had the trans cooler when I saw that, but found out through research that I didnt, but I have added an oem one. For my 2010 the extra cooling system rpo code is KD1, not sure about 2008.
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Honestly-if it where me,I would be more concerned to have a tranny cooler than a oil cooler.I have some doubts that towing your trailer you would over heat the oil.And as far as the oil goes,it wouldn't hurt for you to post what oil your running.
In GM's history it was common for them to install oil coolers to the rad because of tight engine compartments like Astro vans,cube vans,big high stress trucks.Fact is some Astro owners removed the oil coolers because of leaking issues at the O rings and it did not have any ill effects.
In GM's history it was common for them to install oil coolers to the rad because of tight engine compartments like Astro vans,cube vans,big high stress trucks.Fact is some Astro owners removed the oil coolers because of leaking issues at the O rings and it did not have any ill effects.
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So, I got the RPO codes, with descriptions of each code (actually, my wife got them last year when we first started looking at trailers) and it appears our Suburban does not have either the tranny cooler or the engine oil cooler. I was searching on another site called etrailer.com and asked one of their "experts" about products, and he directed me to a kit that was had both coolers and the necessary adapters. Anyone have any opinions on specific products out there? I might be making more of this than I should be, but this being our first trailer, I really don't want destroy our urban tank pulling the darn thing : ) I've attached the code sheets for anyone who wants to look.
