Derek@Vision Diesel
New member
This is a buddy of mine and his story....
Had stage 1s installed in his 97 powerstroke, realized the transmission was now the weak link as it felt like it was wanting to slip and temperatures would routinely hit 200+ degrees, even up to 240 if you were driving over a half hour. Found him a BTS transmission and swapped in into the truck today, took us a few hours but we got it all squared away and good to go. Shifts awesome, pulls harder, everything is wonderful.... EXCEPT on his 20 mile drive home going freeway speed it hit 210* while ambient temp was 70*.
He has Banks gauges and the stock OBS trans cooler. I am also running the stock OBS trans cooler and dont have this issue, so im going to rule out the cooler. Do gauges just randomly start reading much hotter than they should!? I would think if it was faulty it would just die or not move.
Could be a plugged cooler, but it was just fully flushed 5k miles ago.
Any help!? Sorry for the long post.
Had stage 1s installed in his 97 powerstroke, realized the transmission was now the weak link as it felt like it was wanting to slip and temperatures would routinely hit 200+ degrees, even up to 240 if you were driving over a half hour. Found him a BTS transmission and swapped in into the truck today, took us a few hours but we got it all squared away and good to go. Shifts awesome, pulls harder, everything is wonderful.... EXCEPT on his 20 mile drive home going freeway speed it hit 210* while ambient temp was 70*.
He has Banks gauges and the stock OBS trans cooler. I am also running the stock OBS trans cooler and dont have this issue, so im going to rule out the cooler. Do gauges just randomly start reading much hotter than they should!? I would think if it was faulty it would just die or not move.
Could be a plugged cooler, but it was just fully flushed 5k miles ago.
Any help!? Sorry for the long post.