Got it installed today finally. Gets up to temp quickly and holds it. Does what it's supposed to, hopefully it will extend the life of the transmission.
Are you watching the factory "guage"? If so that's your problem. I use a scan guage 2 and mine warms up to 170* just daily city driving.Can you provide a picture of where you mounted yours? Mine came in today and I'm going to try to install it tomorrow. A location of where you choose to install it would be helpful.
To answer the question of why, I don't see the temp move on mine at all, unless it's towing or idling for an extended period of time. I would like for the trans to warm up at least a bit on my non towing days.
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If you don't mind me asking, what are you using to display those gauges on you Phoenix radio?So a quick update. I took it for a drive today to do some comparisons.
1. For those that say the in dash gauges are junk, not true. They just only register within a specific range. They do respond a little slow compared to reading it with an OBD reader, such as EZLYNK or ScanGauge. The trans temp doesn't begin to register on the factory bar graph until 110°. After that, each tick mark is 15°. The center of the gauge would be 170°, which makes sense as that is the ideal trans fluid temp.
2. This morning it was cold, about 33-38° during my test drive. As a result, the temp still took a little bit of time to get up. It took about 7 minutes to break 100° and 8 minutes to break 110° and register on the factory gauge. Before it wouldn't have registered at any point with no load at this temperature.
3. Temps got to 152-156° and held steady in that range regardless of load. At idle it would drop to 152, but go up to 154-156 when moving.
4. The biggest difference I noticed driving was no shift flare at all when warm (I would get it occasionally before, nothing serious) and much better and crisper downshifting when slowing down or when hammering the go pedal. The improvement in downshifts is very noticeable.
We will see what happens long term,, especially when towing my fifth wheel, but overall I am so far happy with it. Relatively inexpensive and easy for a DIY project. View attachment 44121