Anyone tryed a Derale tranny pan for our trucks? I was looking at torque converters and saw these pretty cheap. Theyre the ones with the cooling tubes and a built in bung for temp gauge. They also have a drain plug and higher capacity. Theyre about half price as the competitors i was lookign at so I thought maybe they arent that good. Anyone got any feedback??

 

I have heard of a few people here having them and I never really heard anything bad about them. If you run in the mud a lot you will probably plug up the cooling tubes.

 

Not mudding in my old 2wd. I found some good reviews. I think imma buy one and swap em out when i change the filter/fluid.

 

Be sure to by lots of tranny fluid.....
That pan adds nearly 5 qts of ATF.

 

I have one on mine and with every thing else I have it keeps the fluid nice and cool. I haven't seen over 140 pan temp yet.

 

I have that pan too, no trans temp guage but i figure it must help! i wish i had painted it before i installed it, two winters of salt and crud have rusted it pretty badly. i put it on when i did the converter, for the price it seemed like a no brainer!

 

Well, I dont think it could hurt anything. Im going to go ahead and get it, a new filter and new fluid.

 

If you do something wild with the truck and need more cooling, you could tap those tubes and pump coolant through them to an auxiliary radiator, too.

 

part number der 14010, u SHOULD use that with the pan. not saying its certain though. its a pick up extender. i use this pan and when the tranny was redone the extender was installed. iirc it was 25 about two years ago

 

Im assuming the extender just pushes the fiter deeper into the pan?