PPE Transmission Pan?????

[Jteakus]

Anyone know if the deep pan will clear Metalcloak skid plates on a 3.0?

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[WILDHOBO]

So there’s a shallow one of these and a deep one. I’m assuming yall did the deep one for the extra fluid/cooling. Is this correct or am I off target?

Not with the 3.6. The exhaust crossover in the issue. They make one specifically for the crossover with cutouts in the fins. It still fits another quart though, over Oem.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Anyone know if the deep pan will clear Metalcloak skid plates on a 3.0?

I doubt it. My next venture skids clear, but not by much in one spot.

 

[Branckyy3]

I am. And I’ve done mine, and a friends JLUR. Both of us did both jeeps together. There’s some contention about the process. But there shouldn’t be. Send me a pm with your number and I’ll share mine. Happy to talk through the process as we experienced it. Both jeeps have lots of hard miles on them since, and both are running perfectly.

I’m running the PPE pan on my gas Gladiator and have done the fluid change with no issues. The YouTube gear-cycling routines are overblown, the important part is having the Jeep level and the transmission in the correct temp range. Fill until it dribbles out, start it, foot on brake, slowly cycle through P-R-N-D for a couple seconds each, then with it still running and at temp, top it off again until it just overflows and close it up. I’ve put plenty of hard miles on it since and it’s been running perfectly.

 

[JTGuy]

I just did my PPE pan.. done. My back still hurts . Took a full 8 L to refill .

 

[WILDHOBO]

I just did my PPE pan.. done. My back still hurts . Took a full 8 L to refill .

8.4 quarts?! Did you lose a bunch when warming it up during the filling process? I’ve never heard of anyone using much more than 6 quarts. 9 quarts is the full capacity with the Oem pan. Not giving you crap. Genuinely curious.

 

[Fpolanco]

Anyone know if the deep pan will clear Metalcloak skid plates on a 3.0?

Crap! I ordered the expanded capacity pan and completely forgot that I have a skid plate!

I'm hoping the weather warms up to above freezing and I'll keep you posted. Otherwise, I'll call PPE directly and see if they have any info...

 

[Fpolanco]

Anyone know if the deep pan will clear Metalcloak skid plates on a 3.0?

Here's what I got back from PPE. They can't confirm with each and every skid plate out there but they sent me dimensions and measurements for both of their high capacity pans (diesel and gas).

Hope this helps!

 

[WILDHOBO]

Here's what I got back from PPE. They can't confirm with each and every skid plate out there but they sent me dimensions and measurements for both of their high capacity pans (diesel and gas).

Hope this helps!

I have part number 228153510 on my gasser. It just clears my next venture skids. I had to do super minor trimming, but not on the pan. On the skid.

 

[rubicon4wheeler]

Anyone know if the deep pan will clear Metalcloak skid plates on a 3.0?

I'm curious of the same thing, but I think I'll just play it safe with the standard capacity pan.

 

[JTGuy]

I just realized that I didn't shake the ZF fluid for 15 seconds as it says on the container. I did use a hand pump that sucks the fluid from the bottom of the container and I put any left over into one and used it also. Who would know how bad I screwed up?

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

I just realized that I didn't shake the ZF fluid for 15 seconds as it says on the container. I did use a hand pump that sucks the fluid from the bottom of the container and I put any left over into one and used it also. Who would know how bad I screwed up?

Should be fine. The fill process and a run of the transmission should be enough of a shake to get stuff distributed.

 

[Maximus Gladius]

I just realized that I didn't shake the ZF fluid for 15 seconds as it says on the container. I did use a hand pump that sucks the fluid from the bottom of the container and I put any left over into one and used it also. Who would know how bad I screwed up?

The point of shaking the bottles is to mix the additives that settled to the bottom of the bottles since they were boxed. I think it’s important to have those additives in the tranny.

If it were me, I’d hope I kept all those bottles. If you have them and have a partially full bottle, pour it into one and shake the crap of of it, then transfer into another empty bottle, shake, repeat until you’ve gone through all the bottles. The additives will be condensed into the last bottle and do the frame level thing, suck some fluid out and put that concentrated additive bottle in and perform the oil level procedure. You’ll be good to go.

It’s true, additives do settle out to the bottom of the bottles when not disturbed. This is the same for all bottled oils.

 

[WILDHOBO]

The point of shaking the bottles is to mix the additives that settled to the bottom of the bottles since they were boxed. I think it’s important to have those additives in the tranny.

If it were me, I’d hope I kept all those bottles. If you have them and have a partially full bottle, pour it into one and shake the crap of of it, then transfer into another empty bottle, shake, repeat until you’ve gone through all the bottles. The additives will be condensed into the last bottle and do the frame level thing, suck some fluid out and put that concentrated additive bottle in and perform the oil level procedure. You’ll be good to go.

It’s true, additives do settle out to the bottom of the bottles when not disturbed. This is the same for all bottled oils.

Huh. I didn’t shake mine. But I bounced them around a bunch on the way home.

 

[DanJT]

I have the regular pan, and darn it it I didn't shake the bottles. But 9 months later and still running strong.

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