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You can always add a radiating cooler in series with the OE exchanger, and even force air with a small fan if necessary. There are lots of IP67 and IP68 waterproof 12V fans around these days, they work fine for stuff like that.
Mine never reaches center either (Florida summer).Thupertrooper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:51 amWhat I really will do first is figure out an easy oil temp sensor coming out the tranny. What avg temp do you guys see? My needle never reaches center.
That's one thing there's no easy out for on an R51. The tranny fittings are banjoes, so there's noplace to put a threaded tee fitting on the pump outlet. The TCM is inside the tranny, so there's no external temperature signal to steal with a gauge-matcher. So rigging up a brass NPT tee with a pair of barb fittings is about the only way to mount a sensor. Protecting that from vibration and fatigue may require some forethought.Thupertrooper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:51 amWhat I really will do first is figure out an easy oil temp sensor coming out the tranny. What avg temp do you guys see? My needle never reaches center.
What about one of those plug in ECU readers I heard about? Could a ATF Temp gauge be mounted that reads a plug in from under the dash just for that?VStar650CL wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 2:01 pmThat's one thing there's no easy out for on an R51. The tranny fittings are banjoes, so there's noplace to put a threaded tee fitting on the pump outlet. The TCM is inside the tranny, so there's no external temperature signal to steal with a gauge-matcher. So rigging up a brass NPT tee with a pair of barb fittings is about the only way to mount a sensor. Protecting that from vibration and fatigue may require some forethought.Thupertrooper wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:51 amWhat I really will do first is figure out an easy oil temp sensor coming out the tranny. What avg temp do you guys see? My needle never reaches center.
How does the Armada feed the ATF temperature display in the dash?VStar650CL wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 7:26 pmThe trans temp signal is there on the CANbus but I have no idea whether it's OBD compliant or Nissan proprietary. Only the Combination Meter and the Transfer Controller use the signal. The ECM doesn't look at it. So the only question is, can the plug-in can read it?