I was in a time crunch and took my brand new trans lines, cut the rubber portion away from the area the one goes up to the radiator as well as the one that goes out to the cooler. I carefully cut the metal clamps GM uses from the metal to the rubber part, it even has a flare on the metal, which is why I'm surprised I can't get the rubber to seal just using clamps. From there is where I just used rubber to the inlet/outlet of the cooler and onto the trans cooler lines. It was a temporary fix. I just don't know what sort of metal tubing to buy, like is it brake line, fuel line? I want to make my own metal lines going to the cooler and make it factory looking again with the snap in clips and all