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Dear Art,
Hope you're well. I checked VADIS and could only find transmission cooler lines - from the tranny forward - for use with an auxiliary ATF (automatic transmission fluid) cooler. I did not see a diagram which showed transmission fluid lines, intended to replace the factory-original units, which run directly from the transmission to the in-radiator, ATF cooler.
A box large enough to hold these tubes could be shipped: UPS or FedExGround would charge for the size (volume), not the weight. If the box were deemed over-size and so rejected by UPS or FedExGround, Greyhound will accept boxes large enough to hold a Volvo dashboard. Such a box should be adequate for these tubes.
To prevent the box from being crushed, these tubes would have to be "floated" on tight-packed styrofoam peanuts. "Tight-packed", means that after a base layer of peanuts has been poured into the box, the tubes can be put in. Then, more styrofoam peanuts have to be put in, and the box shaken to settle everything. Further peanuts must be added, and the box shaken briskly again, to settle everything. When the level of the "settled" styrofoam is an inch above the box flaps' fold-line, the box should be closed.
This methods compresses the styrofoam peanuts, locking the tubes into place. If items cannot move within a box, they are less likely to be damaged. This method also fills the box will enough material, to keep the box from being crushed, by the bumps and tumbles of shipping.
Few of those, responsible for shipping, understand physics. That is why one finds parts put in the bottom of a box, with all of the packing material on top of the parts. If shippers educated their packers about physics, the parts would be surrounded by packing material.
Hope this helps.
Yours faithfully,
Spook
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