Hi guys, Im new to the diesel world, and unfamiliar with Dodge trucks, so any help would be appreciated. Im about to order a kit for the kdp, while im under the hood id like to change the fuel plate. I dont want anything crazy but what I need to know is, how much power is safe to make with my automatic. I just want to wake it up a bit for towing my toybox. I was thinking #8 or #10 plate, they seem about right. Ive already got the pyro/trans gauges in. Truck is a 95 ram 2500 2wd. Any help would be cool. Thanx in advance.

 

First of all welcome to the site Theirs really not a set amount of power that is safe per say. You could fry it with a bone stock engine. But once you add your fuel plate, your going to be the true deciding factory on how long it lasts. If your hammering the pedal off every light and driving recklessly then your going to really burn it up, now if you drive like a normal person and only floor it here and there it'll last longer. With the added power the tranny should run the same but you'll probably see a increase in the trans temp.

Here's my overall position on it: I ran my truck with a 5 plate, CAI, Exhaust, 4K GSK and an Aurora 3000 turbo for almost for almost 2 years without one tranny problem. I didn't drive like a grandpa but I certainly didn't drive like a jack*ss... During that period I pulled a 4 horse 10ft short wall horse trailer and the tranny ran around 170-190 and that was the only change I saw.

Overall get yourself a triple disc torque converter, extra deep tranny oil pan and a valve body and you'll be set unless you wanna go all out on your truck...

 

a triple disk on a stock input shaft is bad idea with any amount of power

 

I appreciate your advice, but Im more looking for a mild recommendation on a fuel plate, that wont be too hard on the tranny. At what the trucks worth, I dont forsee ever spending more than what the old trucks worth putting a transmission in it. Besides, I know the former owner, and he did it about 50000 miles ago at a cost of 2800 bucks!

 

With towing I dont see going much past pushing the stocker forward being safe. Theres a lot of transmissions out there that didnt survive stock engines. But if your easy on it when your towing I dont see sliding the stocker forward or a #6 being an issue.

You know how it goes. You have to pay to play

 

is there something to be gained from just sliding the stock plate forward? Ive never seen anything about it. Thanx, Jeff.

 

yeah your still gonna be adding the fuel. the plate only determines how much fuel at certain rpm and throttle position. the different profiles help with things such as turbo spool and egts. so you can slide it foward and gain quite a bit but make sure you watch the egts, some people have had high egts with a stock plate foward but it shouldnt be anything that you cant fix with a little timing adjustment.