Fordomatic Question

[all american boy]

what is all that stuff around bottom
passenger side transmission to bellhousing bolt?
something that looks like a tube and
some other stuff

 

[Daves55Sedan]

What year? car or truck?

Pre-1957 cars had an air-cooled fordomatic, so there were no cooling lines to the radiator on those (cars). Trucks had an outboard fluid cooler piped in on the passenger side. I think they mounted the cooler coil behind the bellhousing.
57 and later cars had cooling lines from pass side of Ford-o-matic to a little cooling coil mounted on the inside of the bottom radiator tank.

 

[Junknshit]

Could it possibly be a crankcase vent tube?

 

[all american boy]

daves 55 sedan
that's it!
'Trucks had an outboard fluid cooler piped in on the passenger side'
manual calls it 'oil to water' transmission cooler
it's a mess!
somebody cut lines to
run transmission cooler lines up to later radiator
PLUS having it still run through this original cooler

 

[all american boy]

here are pic's of truck
'oil to water' transmission cooler off transmission
plus bonus pic of bracket that was
in the way of bottom trans to bellhousing bolt

 

[49merclover]

56 cars had cooling lines too after feb of 56

 

[all american boy]

49 merc lover
thanks for the response
getting the old project under control now