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When I encountered my “battery” problem, all I had was a high voltage reading off the alternator all the time. I was sure it was that damn “aux killing the main”. I was proved wrong. My 2 year old Optima main was going south taking out the aux. Taking out the aux, leaving its entrails in place...

Well that super sucks! When I took my Optima battery back at just having it 2 years, they gave me full price refund toward the AC Delco I swapped for. Ended up getting a bunch of cash back. Tires get prorated here.

The camera will come back on. I’ve had this happen when I’ve had my batteries out. Sometimes it takes a couple hours, other times, it’s back up and running the next day.

Does he have a diagnostic tool to scan for faults?

Yes,….”…let it be done” but then let us watch what happens… If you are one that has racked up a gazillion miles and this is your first pan drop, I wish all good things to come of it and I can only hope that you would send off a sample to the lab and ask for an oxidation number. We can then...

I reused mine 4 times. It’ll get replaced next time

Had the pleasure of travelling north 3.5 hours to Edmonton on Monday! Finally doing a road trip that had me going there and back in the same day. Truck loves the road trips and I saw another drop in transmission temps. I said above that after my 3rd pan drop was when I noticed temps drop. Then...

Hahaha, after I read @StanH post, my immediate response was to say it learned from you! 🤣. and then I read your reply

Here’s a graph showing both full and semi syn ATF. Sure it’s Ai, maybe there’s some wiggle room for discrepancies in how it comes up with the curve but if it’s in the ball park, we as drivers should be noting what temps we get up to and consider that maybe it’s “lifetime” could have shortened...

With a diagnostic tool that can recalibrate, relearn, actuate. I have the Mucar CDE 900 pro. I can only speak to this tool I have which also requires the annual license subscription with FCA to have full security gateway unlock. This license is bought through the Mucar diagnostic tool.

Parts guy told me the actuator was getting weak and will do that. I then talked with the shop Forman who said it’s important to do a recalibration when it’s installed.

I have that same thing happening. I just picked up the actuator motor and will get the T20 tool needed. Glad the motor is right on the side of the recirculating door.

Like me🤗 I wouldn’t be so alone then.

Ai. We didn’t have @ShadowsPapa chime in so I settled for second best.

Hope this helps

Are you hoping to gain access to the tranny through there? What do you hope to see…besides the obvious?

For me, if I saw that, I’d have a sh$&! But many have seen those temps before and I’d guess the consensus would be from some who are wiser and much smarter that the oil and tranny can go even hotter before there’s concern. Heat kills trannies but I don’t know at what temperature heat starts...

Interesting read. For what’s its worth, I won’t save a few bucks to buy Max Life or ZF Lifeguard off Amazon. What ever I spend on this truck is a business write off anyway so whatever the price is for the Mopar 8/9, at least I can see, hold and use it. My money going the other way… won’t see a...

The only conclusive answer I got from the lab was “the synthetic spike they look for is what tells them if the oil is full or semi. My sample wasn’t driven long enough @30k kms to tell. There was however a much smaller spike they saw and did compare it to other “known full synthetics”. I asked...

I appreciate the explanation from all your years tearing down and rebuilding you’ve done and the science explained. What is never discussed here dealing with these transmissions or any transmission quite frankly are the oil analysis reports. Why? Cause nobody does them. For all the discussion...