Transmission Temp Gauges

[walter m. drew]

Dave,
I installed a digipanel. Their instructions were to put the probe on
the tranny hot line leading to the radiator. So I took a drive around
the block a couple of times and then felt the two lines. Picked the hot
one and hooked her up. So far just driving around town the temp has
gone up to 150. Off for San Diego tomorrow with Suzuki Samuri in tow.
Hope to get to Caspro in San Diego. Put Mobil 1 15-50 in yesterday and
oil pressure is up about 15lbs. More on my return.

Walter 78 Royale

 

[dave1]

>Looks like a sure case for temperature gauges on tranny and engine

I do not have a temp gauge on my trans but I have been thinking that it
would be a good idea. What is a good location for mounting the temperature
pickup? Do I assume that simply measuring the fluid temp is good enough or
is there a specific part of the trans that should be monitored?

Dave
73 Sequoia

 

[richard waters]

I recently installed a new instrument panel. Part of the new panel was a
trans temp gage. The directions that came with the panel suggested that you
could measure the temp any of 3 locations:
1) there is a fitting on the transmission case that will accept a sender
2) you can put a sender in the transmission pan. The stock pans must be
drilled and tapped.
3) in the oil line going to the trans oil cooler.

There may be other ways, but those were the options that I had. I ended up
putting the sender in the transmission case. I wonder if that is a very good
location, because I never get high temperature readings. In fact, at first I
thought my sender/gage was defective because the reading never got off the
peg.

Richard Waters
76 Palm Beach
Troy, MI
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Dave wrote

> >Looks like a sure case for temperature gauges on tranny and engine
>
> I do not have a temp gauge on my trans but I have been thinking that it
> would be a good idea. What is a good location for mounting the temperature
> pickup? Do I assume that simply measuring the fluid temp is good enough or
> is there a specific part of the trans that should be monitored?
>
> Dave
> 73 Sequoia

 

[thomas g. warner]

Intuitively think that the output of the tranny to the cooler.

> >Looks like a sure case for temperature gauges on tranny and engine
>
>I do not have a temp gauge on my trans but I have been thinking that it
>would be a good idea. What is a good location for mounting the temperature
>pickup? Do I assume that simply measuring the fluid temp is good enough or
>is there a specific part of the trans that should be monitored?
>
>Dave
>73 Sequoia
>
>
>
Tom & Marg Warner
Vernon Center NY
1976 palmbeach

 

[thomas g. warner]

When you say in the case do you mean in the tranny pan? You should be
getting relatively high readings there. I intend to put a perma cool tranny
cooler and fluid filter in and the filter comes with a temp gauge.

>I recently installed a new instrument panel. Part of the new panel was a
>trans temp gage. The directions that came with the panel suggested that you
>could measure the temp any of 3 locations:
>1) there is a fitting on the transmission case that will accept a sender
>2) you can put a sender in the transmission pan. The stock pans must be
>drilled and tapped.
>3) in the oil line going to the trans oil cooler.
>
>There may be other ways, but those were the options that I had. I ended up
>putting the sender in the transmission case. I wonder if that is a very good
>location, because I never get high temperature readings. In fact, at first I
>thought my sender/gage was defective because the reading never got off the
>peg.
>
>Richard Waters
>76 Palm Beach
>Troy, MI
>----------
>
>Dave wrote
>

>> >Looks like a sure case for temperature gauges on tranny and engine
>>
>> I do not have a temp gauge on my trans but I have been thinking that it
>> would be a good idea. What is a good location for mounting the temperature
>> pickup? Do I assume that simply measuring the fluid temp is good enough or
>> is there a specific part of the trans that should be monitored?
>>
>> Dave
>> 73 Sequoia
>
>
>
Tom & Marg Warner
Vernon Center NY
1976 palmbeach

 

[david l greenberg]

I have mine installed in a Ragusa pan. It works real well and I am told
by "experts" that the oil temp in the pan normally runs about 50F cooler
than the oil exiting the converter.

Mine usually runs 130-140 except when I am doing a lot of stop-start in-
town driving.

David Lee Greenberg F22009
GMC Motorhome Registry
200 MacFarlane Drive PH4
Delray Beach, FL 33483-6829

 

[richard waters]

In my case there was no threaded hole to put the sender in the "pan". There was
however a location on the trans case it self. On top of the transmission that had
a plug. I unscrewed the plug and screwed the sender in. The readings are
probably relatively cool. However the end of the sensor is in the trans fluid.
Some came out when I unscrewed the plug.

Richard Waters
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> When you say in the case do you mean in the tranny pan? You should be
> getting relatively high readings there. I intend to put a perma cool tranny
> cooler and fluid filter in and the filter comes with a temp gauge.
>

> >I recently installed a new instrument panel. Part of the new panel was a
> >trans temp gage. The directions that came with the panel suggested that you
> >could measure the temp any of 3 locations:
> >1) there is a fitting on the transmission case that will accept a sender
> >2) you can put a sender in the transmission pan. The stock pans must be
> >drilled and tapped.
> >3) in the oil line going to the trans oil cooler.
> >
> >There may be other ways, but those were the options that I had. I ended up
> >putting the sender in the transmission case. I wonder if that is a very good
> >location, because I never get high temperature readings. In fact, at first I
> >thought my sender/gage was defective because the reading never got off the
> >peg.
> >
> >Richard Waters
> >76 Palm Beach
> >Troy, MI
> >----------
> >
> >Dave wrote
> >

> >> >Looks like a sure case for temperature gauges on tranny and engine
> >>
> >> I do not have a temp gauge on my trans but I have been thinking that it
> >> would be a good idea. What is a good location for mounting the temperature
> >> pickup? Do I assume that simply measuring the fluid temp is good enough or
> >> is there a specific part of the trans that should be monitored?
> >>
> >> Dave
> >> 73 Sequoia
> >
> >
> >
> Tom & Marg Warner
> Vernon Center NY
> 1976 palmbeach