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Help me determine trans. cooler fitting.

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#1 ·
I managed to twist one of the cooler line fittings in half on my transmission and can’t figure out what size it is.


TH-350. Not original to my car so I’m not certain what year it was manufactured or what it was first installed in. It does have the standard Chevrolet bellhousing. The cooler lines themselves are 5/16” with flare fittings.

The fittings have straight threads and 18 threads per inch with a flat sealing washer that mates against the case. The threaded portion looks to be about 1/2” in diameter, but a 1/2” wrench will not fit over the threads. A 9/16” wrench just rattles around on it.

If I can identify the threads that go into the transmission case I will likely just replace these fittings with a -6 AN adapter and graft new -6 lines onto my 5/16” cooler lines.

Help?
 

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#3 ·
Thank you. I had to resort to Amazon, as I want to get it back together and Summit won’t ship until the 28th.

On a related note, I’ve never been able to figure out thread sizes past the standard USS and SAE. Those make sense. But how is it that a 1/4 NPT or NPS fitting is slightly larger that 1/2” in diameter? I can only guess they are talking about threaded pipe with an inside diameter of 1/4”?

Those and tubing fitting sizes make my head spin.
 
#5 ·
Thank you for your offer. I ended up buying some fittings to adapt -6AN hoses to the case. I honestly don’t think this TH350 is going to last very long and it dawned on me that 1) lining up and tightening the stock inverted flare fittings is a nuisance, and 2) once I have the AN fittings on my stock lines I can easily make hoses to fit whatever transmission I may replace it with and not have to wrestle the hard lines into submission.

Tom.
 
#9 ·
Yeah, but for this job I needed an adapter fitting to go into my radiator so I could add an auxiliary cooler off of that port. So no 5/16” line. Just the fitting. Good news is that I’m just smart enough to know what I don’t know and Team Chevelle can usually get me a quick answer!