I finally got my tranny temp gauge hooked up yesterday and now I'm wondering what the normal operating temps should be. <br><br>The sender is located in the crossover line.<br><br>Driving around town yesterday and short hop down the freeway I was seeing about 170 on the gauge.<br><br>

 

Same here. 170* is normal from what i've seen and heard. Only when you are pushing it or towing do you see 200* or slighty above for a short time.<br><br>mark <br>PDR - Black Sheep Racing

 

Jbolt-<br>Can't get mine to budge off of 180 for love nor money. It doesn't seem to care what the ambient temp. is or the load. Pulling my 22' construction trailer (7k) in mid-July still results in 180-190.

 

<br>cowpie- where is your temp semsor located? Mine is in the crossover line.<br><br>We are curently traveling and on the way up through the Sierras at night I was seeing almost 220 in OD and 200 out of OD and that was lightly loaded. 60mph average<br><br>We went up the mountain today after X-Mas trees and I forgot to take it out of OD. About 5 miles up a 6-8% grade I was at 250 Turned off the OD and it dropped back to 200 the rest of the way up. Seems high to me from what others are saying.

 

A lot of the tranny temp senders are located in the pan, if it is you may never know what the actual temp is getting to be inside that Transmission. The cool fluid is mixing in the pan and it will give you a false reading.<br> Your gauge may say 190 but the fluid could easily be 250 coming off the disks. You may be cooking that fluid and not even know it.

 

The 96 has a torque converter lockup clutch and runs cooler. <br>The 93 does not have a torque converter clutch and runs hotter.