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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 09:38 PM
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well i also started to eyeball a second trans cooler... also gonna be putting an ext filter, as well as trans temp gauge in...any ideas on where the best/most accurate place would be to put the sending unit?
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 09:53 PM
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drove 250 miles home, the cat delete threw another CEL, shut the truck down, refired it, no cel for the last 70 or so miles, i think i need to reset the computer

but it is doing better on fuel with the cat gone
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 95MaroonMonster
drove 250 miles home, the cat delete threw another CEL, shut the truck down, refired it, no cel for the last 70 or so miles, i think i need to reset the computer

but it is doing better on fuel with the cat gone

how much better is it doing?
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 10:24 PM
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well on the 250 mile drive, i only used half a tank = a little over 14 mpg

(i made it from Kewanne Illinois to the indiana line on a quarter tank, would have done better after that but traffic got heavy
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by 95MaroonMonster
well on the 250 mile drive, i only used half a tank = a little over 14 mpg

(i made it from Kewanne Illinois to the indiana line on a quarter tank, would have done better after that but traffic got heavy
damn im currently geting about 250 to a full tank
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 004x41500
well i also started to eyeball a second trans cooler... also gonna be putting an ext filter, as well as trans temp gauge in...any ideas on where the best/most accurate place would be to put the sending unit?


miami put his on the back side of the pan i believe, to block from wind and so the fluid is pushed back there
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 004x41500
damn im currently geting about 250 to a full tank
which tank do you have, the 26 or the 35
 
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Old Nov 25, 2009 | 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by 95MaroonMonster
which tank do you have, the 26 or the 35
26, why what do you have?
 
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Old Nov 26, 2009 | 12:16 AM
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35 gallon
 
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Old Nov 26, 2009 | 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Oren09
Plugs in cylinders 1 & 8 had a very small amount of oil, just enough to make the threads wet. Not sure if this is indicative of anything?
see if the low side of the valve cover has any oil around the gasket. my plugs used to get a good little bit of oil on them from a bad valve cover gasket leak. it did make the plug heat shields easy to pull out though.
 
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