Anyone ever thought about removing the clock and installing a trans temp gauge in place of it? I was thinking of trying to find a rectangular digital readout that would fit without too much trouble hopefully.
Clock to Trans Temp Gauge
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Not exactly what you’re thinking but similar. May be a good starting point.
Feeler: Clock Replacement Multi Gauge
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Auber gauges are pretty small.
I have two of them above my radio and Scangauge to monitor Oil Pressure and Trans Temp.
I have two of them above my radio and Scangauge to monitor Oil Pressure and Trans Temp.
How much trimming and tinkering to fit those Aubers?
Depends on where you mount them. Two of them fit side by side in old cup holder slot (just cut the back out the plastic housing of the cup holder). I made an aluminum replica of the cup holder housing....because my plastic one was pretty brittle. Mounted elsewhere...they are only slightly larger than a a standard switch cutout.
Digital Trans Temp Gauge Install........
Below is the nicest mounting of Auber Gauges I have seen and is what I originally wanted to do , but I have other important switches in that area already.
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What kind of trans temps do you usually see? Are they ever near what would be considered high per the FSM? Seems handy to have either way.
^^^^^^^^ Oh Gawd NO........! Either of those figures would be catastrophic IMO. Geeeez....I live in Texas and we routinely have summer days (on end) over 100° F. and I have never seen my temps (measured at pan) over 165° F. I'll usually run about 145° on the highway.....maybe 160° in town, in traffic, summertime. Cool winter days (40ish) it will struggle to break 100°.
IF your transmission is in proper working order....then its a pretty boring gauge to have. I can see if a person tows something heavy or off-roads in sand where the transmission is really working, you might see temps get up around 225° F. but any higher than that....I'd start looking for a way to cool it down.
I have my alarm set to come on at 210° and off again at 190° and don't expect I will ever hear it buzz.
Thats pretty much what I thought the answer would be. Mostly I was wondering if you ran into a situation where the temp warning came on or there was some other indication that the temp was high that made you want to put in the gauge. Large volumes of fluid plus an OEM cooler and low temps = a long transmission life!
No, I've never had an event that moved me install a Trans Temp gauge aside from the inability to monitor it on my Scangauge. My fluid has always looked good, never had a transmission problem and it continues to operate just fine.... even with almost 300K on it now.
My real concern was for Oil Pressure, since the factory gauge would have you believe you have little to no oil pressure at idle. THAT was the gauge I absolutely wanted. But since I had space for a second gauge anyway.....I just decided it might as well be Trans Temp. Like I said 'pretty boring gauge' after all is said and done.
The oil pressure gauge is worth the trouble though. I added an auxiliary sending unit and kept the factory one, so I have both the factory gauge (on dash) and the digital (to show actual pressure) to go by. I relocated both sending units to the firewall. The oil pressure gauge is an interesting (and comforting) item to have.
