Hey there I'm wondering how to tell what my trans temperature is. i have a aftetmarket trans cooler mounted in front of the rad. It also seems that when i pull the dipstick it's pretty hot and I'm wondering if it may be over heating thanks

 

Yes there is. You can measure it with an temp gun. You could hold a thermometer to the pan. You could put a trans temp gauge on it, depending on what trans you have.

Most transmissions run around 200F. That's pretty hot if you touch it.

 

Didn't you once tell me that there is no good place to measure the transmission temperature with a temp gun???

 

Not that I remember. It isn't the ideal method, but it can be done to get an approximation of trans temp. To really know the trans temp you need a sensor inside the trans. Like the stock sensor on the solenoid body.

 

yeah it's not perfect,or as good as like the test port but iv used my economical point and shoot gun i got off amazon and read the pan temp and it read just i dunno.....within 10F all easy of what my gauge was reading.
definitely good enough to know if she's reading under 225F or so,for sure.