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Oct 26, 2010 | 08:15 PM

#31

pullenplowen

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From: ky

is it something i could just open up and clean out or just replace with a new stock. the sonnax looks like a good way to go also. i have always been lost when it comes to slush box's. thanks for all the great info

Oct 26, 2010 | 08:27 PM

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cerberus60

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From: Minco OK

Not easy to clean out and still a restriction. Gone is better.

Mar 28, 2011 | 10:15 AM

#33

NadirPoint

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From: CO

Recapping the Cherrybus B$:

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Originally Posted by cerberus60

The check ball is a garbage trap and a flow restrition in the cooler circuit. You can take it out and make no more changes and the trans will work the same and cool better but you need to give it 30 seconds or so in neutral to charge the TC after engine off. To fix the charge in park problem the simple thing is to replace the manual valve with a Sonnax item and it will charge in park.

This is an interesting theory that is pretty much just basically wrong. Chrysler/Dodge designed the cooler circuit just fine and the check valve is there for good reason.

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Originally Posted by cerberus60

The ball doesn't really stick as much as it will fill the area with garbage and cut down the flow to the point the cooling system won't work properly.

Another interesting theory based on incorrect or narrowly defined assumptions. Assuming you have alot of garbage floating around in your transmission fluid portends much bigger problems than it invokes through the cooler circuit design.

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Originally Posted by cerberus60

The ball doesn't really stick as much as it will fill the area with garbage and cut down the flow to the point the cooling system won't work properly.

That check ball is about the last ting that will be adversely affected by "garbage" floating around in the transmission. Properly maintained, the cooling system works just fine, as designed.

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Originally Posted by cerberus60

Not easy to clean out and still a restriction. Gone is better.

There is no restriction. The system works fine and cools at the optimum rate under all possible conditions as designed. Gone is better for people who don't understand why things are designed the way they are for good reason. Get a built transmission and/or a manual valve body if you want something different. Otherwise leave it alone/as designed.

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And FWIW, regardless of the condition of your transmission or anything else that may be wrong with it, it'll have cleaner fluid with better filtration installed.

Just in case that wasn't obvious, from the original thread title.

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