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This is not new. Every car I've owned that had an automatic transmission routed the transmission lines to the radiator to cool the fluid. If I towed with that vehicle, I added a trans cooler and connected it in series with the return line to increase the trans cooling efficiency.I'm pretty sure all Bronco Sport trim levels have a transmission cooler. Newer vehicles integrate the transmission cooler with the primary heat exchanger (radiator). There are typically a pair of hydraulic lines running from the transmission to the heat exchanger. The trans fluid runs through these lines and is routed through the heat exchanger for cooling. I can see the lines connected to the left side near the bottom of the heat exchanger on my Badlands.
My check reveled this on my BS Outer Banks trim, but there was not a separate/external trans cooler, such as what the Bandlands model states in the tech sheet in post #60 describes.
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