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After I got mine back from the rebuild it had a leak at the oil pressure line going to the filter and another going to the oil gauge. Both are now fixed and I'm working on the bed. Both beds I have are in bad and really bad shape. Its going to take even more time than planned.
The units use engine oil to heat/cool tranny fluid. Way too many connections and I can only imagine a stock cooler costing a lot more and not working as well.
Watch the video at 15 seconds in. I was doing this for over 5 hours straight. The mud was deep and like glue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uii3H7FyIZE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
As I mentioned earlier the engine temp was fine and the fan actuator worked as well. The tranny cooler on these trucks just couldn't keep up with the heavy use. My engine temp stayed cool.
When I get a chance, I'm going to look at the system and see how easy it would be to add it in. I was...
Yes the trucks have a cooler but I found under heavy load pulling my transmission heated up. Yes my transmission and cooler are fine. This was pulling trucks out of the mud all day. Frequently trucks their trailer and mud trucks on the trailer all at once. They added better coolers to the A2...
Not at all !
That is what this forum is all about.
For bed liner I went to the local tractor supply and pickup up a gallon to do the bed. Money well spent. It did take a few hours to prep the bed.
I also did the same for my deuce.
At a recent mudfest my M932a1 tructor tranny got warm 275 degrees (I had dex 3 in the tranny). I was doing some heavy pulling. The engine temp stayed cool and since my pulling speeds were so low the tranny never got good cooling. I did change the fluid and drop the pan and change the filter...
Not going to do a dump bed on the truck. Its been over a year with all the mods and the truck has performed wonderfully.
I took it to our local mudfest and I used the truck non-stop pulling out mud trucks and everything else. I might add a transmission cooler, I did give the truck a tough...
I did this with my M932a1 a year ago. Here's my thread:
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?82926-M932A1-with-shorter-drop-side-deuce-bed
I didn't move the bed forward so I had room for the fuel cover on the right tank and also put the tow bar in the front part of the bed for storage...
Tech manuals or TM's are right here on the site. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/forumdisplay.php?95-Technical-Manuals
Spend time on the site as well just reading. You'll get it quick.
Did you bleed the system down a little to get the compressor to kick on ? Just pump the brakes a few times and listen for the compressor to kick on and see where it stops as it pumps the system back up.