Question About Tranny Temp Guage
 

My ISSPRO's should be here anyday and I have a question... I'm ordering a Double Deep Tranny pan and it has a spot in it for the temp gauge. Should I use that or the "hot" line? If I use the hot line can a brake or hydrolic shop put a "T" in my stock one or do I have to drop the $80 for an aftermarket?

THANKS!
Bobby

Use the one in the pan. It will give you a better idea of how well the fluid is cooling and is closer to the average mean temp the fluid see's.

My $.02, I read on the hot line, up by my aux. cooler are some rubber lines I T'd into the feed line and put it there.

Reading the oil in the pan is like reading the pyro post turbo in my opinion.

Reading the hot line is by far the better place to read from as that tells you what temp. the fluid is at the clutches.

Ya need something like this to install it in the soft line.

Just had on 2 dayed to me.. Thanks!!!

FWIW, I totally disagree....

You want to know how hot the fluid is, so why look at the temp in the coldest part of the system?....

Hot line is the only place....I am not familiar with the newer autos, but on the 47re, you can use this:
http://www.vulcanperformance.com/ser...Adaptor/Detail

Maybe you can make it work for you?


EDIT, I just read Nates post......he beat me to it....lol.

I agree with Dr. Evil!!

Because it tells you the system efficiency which is why your monitoring it to begin with. Reading a fluctuating data point doesnt allow stable analysis and doesnt allow you to calculate gradients. Reading the hottest point only tells you max temp. Reading the pan tells you efficiency of the entire system. Ideally you want to data log both but the hot line will only show you max temp and differential. With the pan I can calculate anything I want to know.

True enough...now Im confused...lol

I'd rather know how hot the fluid is coming off my clutches then have to calculate it off what my pan reading is. To me this is just like reading pre or post turbo. You can guess or calculate what the reading is pre-turbo with a post turbo mounted probe or you can know what it is pre turbo by having the probe there. It's all what guys feel comfortable with, I just don't feel comfortable with a post turbo probe or a pan mounted sender.