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ShinerBock
Jul 18, 2019Explorer
IdaD wrote:
Sometimes I have the temps up on the EVIC in which case I keep a pretty close eye on it, other times I have the speedo up on the EVIC. I've towed with it 4+ years so I think I have a pretty good handle on how it behaves at this point. We're typically in the 19-20k lb combined range so I'm not working it as hard as a lot of people.
My brother was the same way until several weeks ago. Never got up that high when towing or even in park for the past few years he has owned it. It just started happening in the past few months.
He has a CTS2 monitor like I do and he has it set to alert him when temps get to 200F. He had the truck in park while hooking up his RV and he said that he heard the alarm go off about five minutes after putting it in park. Got to his truck and the trans was at 200F so he shut the truck off while hooking everything else up. It happened to him again while he was stuck in traffic a few weeks later.
He also said his temps were hotter than normal when towing as well which is why we were thinking that the thermostat in the bypass was broken and remained closed or partially closed. He was going to replace it with another stock unit, but didn't want to take the chance if it failing in a situation where he cannot easily replace it so for $60 more he went with the Revmax unit that has the thermostat deleted.
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