Good morning everyone! I am off to get the camper from the dealer. They finally got all the warranty work done this week.

Good luck on your drive Randy!

 

Good morning everyone. Have a safe trip, Randy!

 

Good morning everyone!

 

Good morning gang.

Have a safe trip Randy.

You too Troy. Good news on the camper.

 

Good morning fellas!

Enjoy the trip Randy! Keep it under 90!

That's good news Troy. Perfect weather to haul it home too.

 

Late Morning all, getting our weekend started. Gonna help haul manure today and possibly tomorrow. Also gotta head up by the cities tomorrow to look at a pickup. Might be time to upgrade.

 

We made it to Custer SD. Roughly 650 miles and much of it was in 3rd gear. I don't know how high the wind speeds were but we had front quartering cross winds and headwinds most the way. The flags at places along the highway were standing straight out mostly..
Handling wise, the Jeep did well with very little sway (I never did connect the sway control - but will tomorrow just to see if it does anything when the trucks and busses are passing me.
My fuel economy was as low as 7.8 and as high as 9.4..
3rd gear at 70 MPH is 4,000 RPM. Good thing I have 3.73 gears and not the standard 3.21s.. Could really use 4.10's...
I'd like to get my hands on the neck of the guy that programmed the transmission. Being an automatic was worthless as it had to be manually shifted. I tried just running in Drive a short time and found it shifted itself all the way down to 2nd gear and it ran all the way up to 6,000 and would not upshift. I had to put it in manual mode to make it shift. Oh and what a thrill - once you have shifted it manually, you cannot force it back into auto mode. You have to come to a complete stop, shift to neutral, then back into Drive.
Must be the best Fiat could do...
Anyway - Time to find a programmer that can put some logic into the transmission shift strategy...

 

Sounds fun Randy. NOT!

Got a good portion of the front of the house painted today. More tomorrow.

 

Did you have the ability to monitor your transmission temperatures?

 

Way to go Jay!


Yes... The DIC shows a number of guages when selected... trans temp never went over 180. Engine coolant went to 238 but was miles below the red zone on the analog guage.. makes me wonder if the red zone is somewhere's north of 300!

 

Pretty impressive, but I imagine they build a Wrangler's transmission cooling to handle the demands of low-speed crawling over difficult terrain with lots of torque converter slip. 238* is warm though, and I bet the gauge is programmed to shift to red abruptly at a certain point like Ford's gauges do. A bit of quick Googling shows that engine in the Ram 1500 shows overheat warnings at 260*.

Pentastar Overheating - Cylinder heads being replaced! - DODGE RAM FORUM - Ram Forums and Owners Club! - Dodge Truck Forum

 

Good morning Minnesota!

 

This little truck has a pretty stout cooling system overall.. it's the first vehicle I've ever bought that did not have an engine driven cooling fan.
The head problem was pretty well known in the Jeep community and was supposedly resolved for the 2014 model year. Mine is a 2015.. hopefully no problems...

 

Good morning Randy and everyone else!

 

I figured. I had an '11 Grand Caravan I drove for work that had a head replaced, but was told they fixed that particular issue later on. I wasn't remarking about the head problem, just using that thread to demonstrate when the overheat warning might show it's face.