Installed tranny cooler, have question!
05-07-2011, 05:30 PM
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Installed tranny cooler, have question!
Now that I have a tranny cooler installed, is it still necessary to put it i'n 4 low when going slow on trails and turn o/d off? Or am I good to go now and not have to worry about over heating?
05-07-2011, 06:02 PM
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It just depends!
Depends on the trails, common sense should tell you "hey you've got your foot in it and you're not going nowhere" . If the trail requires that you move at a snails pace then use low range, it's much easier on the engine and transmission.
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Don't you want it in 4low for the extra power anyway? Don't know what trails you run on, but I put it in 4low at the trailhead and leave it there.
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Originally Posted by cfr
Don't you want it in 4low for the extra power anyway? Don't know what trails you run on, but I put it in 4low at the trailhead and leave it there.
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I have the small B&M cooler and an Aeroforce gauge.
I crawl in 4 lo in the Rockies all day. We routinely go up to the top of 12,000 foot mountains. Our tranny never overheats. It very rarely goes over 200 degrees. At 240 you get fluid degradation that is permanent to the fluid. The only mitigating possibility is the fact that it is rarely over 70 degrees in the high country. If you crawl around where its 90 or 100 degrees you should get the bigger B&M cooler.
Get an aeroforce gauge. Then you pick up all kinds of monitoring and install is as easy as mounting and plugging into the obd port.
I crawl in 4 lo in the Rockies all day. We routinely go up to the top of 12,000 foot mountains. Our tranny never overheats. It very rarely goes over 200 degrees. At 240 you get fluid degradation that is permanent to the fluid. The only mitigating possibility is the fact that it is rarely over 70 degrees in the high country. If you crawl around where its 90 or 100 degrees you should get the bigger B&M cooler.
Get an aeroforce gauge. Then you pick up all kinds of monitoring and install is as easy as mounting and plugging into the obd port.