The heat coming off the floorboards is most likely from the exhaust. My IDI feels like it has in-floor heating when you start working it, and that's with a ZF5.

 

ok thanks for yalls help , I just had to run this by yall ...its this guy I work with at autozone and he says that he works on "heavy equipment" like generators and big rigs, like he's "says" he certified and he tells me that were do I get all this information about Navistar and in house ford diesel motors , and I told him it was this truck page and he told me that it was a bunch of people that blow off steam , I mean im only 18 hes like 30 something ... I asked him what a dt360 is and he had no clue what I was talking about he also told me that I was burning my tranny up hauling that camper 65+mph on the highway saying that's why it was getting hot , that's why I ran it by you guys to clear this up for me

 

You're young so maybe you don't know yet. But any person over 25, that works at AutoZone, doesn't work on equipment like big rigs and heavy equipment. He'd be making a lot more money doing that than basically working for retail.

 

Not picking on AZone or any other parts store, but a top notch mechanic friend said one day "Those who can, do. Those who can't, go work at Autozone."
Now not all parts clerks are like that, I was one in my younger years. And I worked with several that had been fired from places like McD's and such. This guy sounds like one of them.

 

HOW TURE HOW TRUE

 

Back in the real world: in EVERY instance where we've installed larger pans and instrumented w/gauges, we've seen a min 5-10 degree temp drop from the larger alum pan alone which equates to longer trans life. Similar findings:

PML?s New Transmission Pan for 2012 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 - Tech - RV Magazine


For this application (a 1995 Powerstroke F-250 traveling 65 mph with no aerodynamic "re-routing" of air around the vehicle), one would have to have a vivid imagination to think moving airflow temperatures under this truck are even remotely close to transmission fluid temp. There's an enormous delta between that airflow temp and trans pan temp and heat transfer occurs, period.

 

Have you ever measured that temperature?

 

It seems we have an opportunity here, so how 'bout we hold up for a minute before it gets away.

I have my own opinions about the merit of deep and/or aluminum transmission pans, but I'll try to keep them to myself for the time being.

Here is a gentleman that wants a deep aluminum pan and, presumably, would want a temp gauge to go with it. I dare say there are hundreds of folks that would like to know if there is any benefit to this and, particularly, to learn this at someone else's expense.

My proposal: put a temp gauge in the current steel pan and gain enough experience with it to know what the typical temp is under various circumstances. Then switch the pan to a deep aluminum pan and repeat the exercise.

What do you think?

 

I agree with cajohnson, it would be cool to have unbiased evidence either way. I support a deep pan simply because added capacity and bling is never a bad thing. Of course I'd probably make my own and not spend all the money that the trans companies cost.