It did great but a bit expensive for just using the Edge to monitor the Temps.
It also reads all of the other temps.
My tranny was reading 265 when towing over a Mountain Pass here.
Go change you trans fluid NOW! Your fluid has lost more than half of its life span with that cooking.
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Once again I believe my Tranny is running too hot, no temp gauge reading this time. I am not pulling a heavy load, only 5000#s but the elevations I'm towing up is going to kill my tranny.
A larger tranny cooler is going in next Monday, along with a Tranny temp gauge mounted in a single Gauge pod pillar mount.
Hopefully a 12000# tow rated trans cooler will fix my overheating problems.
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07 F150 Supercab 5.4L 6.5 box 4x4 XLT.
Flowmaster 50 Series Cat-back single Exhaust.
What I ended up getting is a aux trans cooler combined with the stock trans cooler. The Aux trans cooler is mounted higher and to the left of the stock tranny cooler, the aux tranny cooler will get better air-flow vs the stocker.
The Electric Trans Temp gauge sender will be mounted in the Line pressure tap. Located in front of the shift linkage of the 4R75E transmission, drivers side. The other four taps are located on the passenger side of the transmission and too close to the exhaust piping.
This is a Digital Temp gauge, reading from 0 to 300 degress. It will be mounted in a Single Pilar Gauge Pod. Still waitng on the temp gauge but even w/o it, I am looking forward to pulling my camper trailer come Friday the 3rd.
I'll know how the aux cooler is doing when the Radiator fan clutch kicks in, when that kicks in it sounds like a jet engine under the hood and that is when I started smelling the hot tranny oil a couple weekends ago..
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07 F150 Supercab 5.4L 6.5 box 4x4 XLT.
Flowmaster 50 Series Cat-back single Exhaust.
What I ended up getting is a aux trans cooler combined with the stock trans cooler. The Aux trans cooler is mounted higher and to the left of the stock tranny cooler, the aux tranny cooler will get better air-flow vs the stocker.
The Electric Trans Temp gauge sender will be mounted in the Line pressure tap. Located in front of the shift linkage of the 4R75E transmission, drivers side. The other four taps are located on the passenger side of the transmission and too close to the exhaust piping.
This is a Digital Temp gauge, reading from 0 to 300 degress. It will be mounted in a Single Pilar Gauge Pod. Still waitng on the temp gauge but even w/o it, I am looking forward to pulling my camper trailer come Friday the 3rd.
I'll know how the aux cooler is doing when the Radiator fan clutch kicks in, when that kicks in it sounds like a jet engine under the hood and that is when I started smelling the hot tranny oil a couple weekends ago..
Hey....
do you have pics of that setup? I would like to see the bracketry and tubing as I am wanting to do the same thing. Any pictures would be great!
~jstnromero
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I have been thinking about a tranny temp guage for a long time----roundtuit problem. Cant speak exactly, but I think the 4R*** trannys are based on the old 4R70W design and the new 6 speed looks to be very similar to the E4OD/4R100 and up.
The E4OD in my 93 bronco has (had) the problem of the catylitic being too close. When I replaced the TQ Conv I cut the "S" pipe between the pre-heater and the cat and re-clocked the pipe and welded it back, plenty of room on passenger side now. I think that most all ford trannys have the output to the coolers on the passenger side. The drivers side lines are after the fluid has been cooled all it can be, so I wouldnt think that would be a good place for a guage.
On the E4OD and probably on most all of the new electronic trannys, the TOT sensor is a thermistor that is in the solenoid pack in the pan below the valve body. My .02 is that that would not be the optimal place for a guage pickup either, even though the system looks at that sensor. It would seen to me that oil comes from the coolers and is dumped into the pan where it is ultimately picked up through the filter, to the tranny pump and then is used in the tranny. My point is, (again, just my .02, you may not agree) that the pan fluid is relatively cool and the hottest fluid comes out the tranny to the lines to the coolers on the pass side. That would seem to be the fluid temp to watch. My preference would be to place a sensor, close to the tranny in the output line. Actually for sensor "overload' how about a sensor in the input line from the coolers as well, with a toggle switch to switch to one electrical temp guage on the dash. At one time, Jeggs stocked a sensor mount for putting in the fluid lines.
Next time the roundtuits get here, I am going to do it!
After doing more research, the Temp Gauge, Temp Sensor, Gauge Pillar Pod have been returned.
I had a Edge Programmer before but didn't keep it, wasn't really needed for what I was looking for.
After seeing what is needed to do the Temp sensor the correct way, I'm better off just getting another Edge but just the "insight model". This way I can monitor more than just the trans temp and not deal with adding the xtra ponies. It is on order.
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07 F150 Supercab 5.4L 6.5 box 4x4 XLT.
Flowmaster 50 Series Cat-back single Exhaust.
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