Diesel cooling options and ideas

[rharr]

i rather remove my hood and fenders and go full redneck before i bought that grille

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[LOGS]

Anyone use the new 25th anniversary grille yet?

 

[OrangeCJ]

Didn't someone already do the hood removed, hood vent, grill removed drill? I thought that it yielded very little change in oil and coolant temps?Have to start re-reading... 59 pages is a lot.

 

[22EcoDs]

Didn't someone already do the hood removed, hood vent, grill removed drill? I thought that it yielded very little change in oil and coolant temps?Have to start re-reading... 59 pages is a lot.

Yes, it made minimal difference.

 

[Rusty PW]

Didn't someone already do the hood removed, hood vent, grill removed drill? I thought that it yielded very little change in oil and coolant temps?Have to start re-reading... 59 pages is a lot.

I opened up the Rubi hood vents. No difference on the highway. It might have helped on the trail some.

 

[Burghardphotography]

Just chiming in to say was quite surprised in how the Tazer’s max radiator fan speed has helped in high oil temp conditions. Haven’t had a chance to try it in warm weather yet obviously, but when snow wheeling through deep powder I saw oil temps at 240ish. Kicked on that max fan mode and temps dropped 20 degrees within minutes.

I wouldnt expect that same level of results during the summer, but I’m curious to hear if anyone has tried it?

 

[azaustin]

Not familiar with Tazer radiator fan. Is this an aftermarket part?

 

[22EcoDs]

Not familiar with Tazer radiator fan. Is this an aftermarket part?

It's using the tazer programmer to enable the fan on high mode. If you haven't heard of one lookup tazer JL.

 

[azaustin]

I have heard of it, but wasn’t if it was the same thing. Also not sure how it might affect my warranty. Thanks.

 

[OrangeCJ]

I have heard of it, but wasn’t if it was the same thing. Also not sure how it might affect my warranty. Thanks.

Two Thumb Salute ™... pushing the two arrow keys to active the fan is an awesome feature with the Tazer, but we still need more cooling power on those 95+ degree days.

Always remove the Tazer out of your truck before taking in for service...they cover that in the instructions for the Tazer as well

 

[@californiajeeping]

The tazer cooldown mode helps on hills if you enable it prior to the hill. It only works under 60ish. Above that I don’t notice any difference. Someone should program the fan to auto kick on when oil temps get above 240.

 

[azaustin]

That answers my obvious question as to when/why the fan goes to full speed.

 

[azaustin]

After re-reading a lot of the posts. on this subject it looks like the only thing that will solve the problem is some kind of accessory oil cooler (probably with a fan.) The question is, due to the relatively low volume of diesel Gladiator. production, will anyone build it? Can it be done in such a way that it will not void the warranty? Even if it were relatively expensive (say $1500-2000) I would buy it. I really like my Gladiator and have. learned to manage the temperatures when. towing my 5,000 pound travel trailer. It would be the perfect vehicle for my purpose if the oil temperature problem could be solved.

 

[CrazyCooter]

After re-reading a lot of the posts. on this subject it looks like the only thing that will solve the problem is some kind of accessory oil cooler (probably with a fan.) The question is, due to the relatively low volume of diesel Gladiator. production, will anyone build it? Can it be done in such a way that it will not void the warranty? Even if it were relatively expensive (say $1500-2000) I would buy it. I really like my Gladiator and have. learned to manage the temperatures when. towing my 5,000 pound travel trailer. It would be the perfect vehicle for my purpose if the oil temperature problem could be solved.

This is the $15,000 warranty claim question/answer!

 

[Chief_jeep]

Just chiming in to say was quite surprised in how the Tazer’s max radiator fan speed has helped in high oil temp conditions. Haven’t had a chance to try it in warm weather yet obviously, but when snow wheeling through deep powder I saw oil temps at 240ish. Kicked on that max fan mode and temps dropped 20 degrees within minutes.

I wouldnt expect that same level of results during the summer, but I’m curious to hear if anyone has tried it?

How did you get your tazer to do that? I'm not seeing this as an option or maybe I'm just missing it.

Can you do this while driving or only while you are parked?

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