Wiskey
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- San Marcos
Hello all!
I've had transmission problems since I bought my jeep,.. at first it presented as smoke pouring out of the back of my truck going up steep hills at freeway speeds. It took me a while to track this problem down, when I finally did I found that transmission fluid was getting hot enough to boil out of the dipstick tube, the pour down on the exaust.
So I installed a temp gauge - directly into the pressure port which is the hottest place I can put it, and quickly pinned it past 260 deg.
I installed twin transmission coolers - and found myself going 20 mph up hills coming back from Moab Utah just to keep the transmission under 240.
I have since re-geared and it does better now, running at around 190 in town, longer drives see 230, but that still seems hot to me.
I was wondering what temps your transmissions hit? is this thing just made to run hot?
Thanks,
Whiskey
I've had transmission problems since I bought my jeep,.. at first it presented as smoke pouring out of the back of my truck going up steep hills at freeway speeds. It took me a while to track this problem down, when I finally did I found that transmission fluid was getting hot enough to boil out of the dipstick tube, the pour down on the exaust.
So I installed a temp gauge - directly into the pressure port which is the hottest place I can put it, and quickly pinned it past 260 deg.
I installed twin transmission coolers - and found myself going 20 mph up hills coming back from Moab Utah just to keep the transmission under 240.
I have since re-geared and it does better now, running at around 190 in town, longer drives see 230, but that still seems hot to me.
I was wondering what temps your transmissions hit? is this thing just made to run hot?
Thanks,
Whiskey