i have a 700R4 and an autometer guage. I also have a tranny pan with tubes running thourgh it. Suppose to be a cooling mod also I have a tranny cooler and an external tranny filter. The car shows 160* when hot and sitting and 125* on the highway cruising. Is this ok?

 

btt

 

Seems a little cool from what I remember...seems to me the "ideal" (take it for what it's worth) tranny temp is 180-185.

I read somewhere that for every 10* rise over the 180-185 temp, the tranny fluid's life decreases by some factor..25%, or something like that.

Not sure if it's an issue running cooler.

 

160 is about as cold as you want to be. 125 is too cold.

 

damit. I can never win Now what do I do? Is my guage off? Its a brand new autometer Pro Comp.

 

BTW the sensor is after all the coolers. So would it be like 180* going in?

 

Why don't you want your tranny to run as cool as possiable?????

 

180 is about where you want it to be. Running it too cold is almost as bad as running it too hot. The temp should be taken with a sensor mounted in the pan.....that is where the temp will be most stable.

 

I had a problem with this. The problem with the fluid being too cool is that it's thicker. My car wouldn't want to shift in the morning during wintertime because the fluid was thick. I had a fairly large cooler mounted up front. Solution...instead of running the cooler from radiator to cooler to trans, I ran it from cooler to radiator to trans. I guess if it's bad enough you can run it cooler only. I know they sell thermostat's for those. I agree, 180 is the best temp. My trans worked best there.

 

It says to run sensor after the coolers inline.

 

Mkos, you could cover 1/2 of the aftermarket cooler with a thin piece of sheetmetal... maybe punch some holes in it to allow for some airflow thru the "shield". I think that would cut your trans cooler in half and maybe give you the extra few degrees you need.


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Hmm maybe i'll try that Thanks