Thought I'd ask another "Gomer" while waiting for my looms to get here:

First of all this little Fairlane 289 has an auxillary tranny cooler attached to the front of the radiator instead of running the tranny fluid thru the connections in the bottom tank of the rad. It's pretty obvious from what I can see that the tranny lines are needing re-doing because it appears that they have been "barrioed" from some copper tubing and rubber hoses - - - that's just a guess from what I've found so far in this Car and from what little I can see but it shouldn't be long before I/WE can get'er on a rack and take a look (shutter: I'm not looking forward to that realization).

ANYHOW - now the question: "is the added tranny cooler better than the one in the radiator?"