700R4 success, I think.

[Mullaney]

It's not directly transmission related but I spent a few hours last night wiring up my auxillary fuse panel and gauge pod.

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The lockup solenoid now has its own protected circuit and I just need to connect the trans temp sensor to the gauge, wire the fans to the panel and switch, and all the transmission wiring will be done... for now.

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Nice! Fuses to protect... Definitely helps when smoke wants to escape
Nice looking gauge panel too.

 

[ranchhopper]

I would be very careful mounting a trans cooler under a truck lots of stones bouncing around down there may not be long before one punches a hole through it. A lot of guys mount them behind the rear cab window for just that reason.

 

[Erik Unyielding]

I would be very careful mounting a trans cooler under a truck lots of stones bouncing around down there may not be long before one punches a hole through it. A lot of guys mount them behind the rear cab window for just that reason.

Trust me, with my tendency to over-plan and over-build, it's a nagging concern. Plan is, once everything is operational, to break out the welder and fabricate a cage and shield.

 

[Erik Unyielding]

I swear, the damn fan switches are cursed! I got the switch installed, started wiring it, wasn't paying attention, yanked the wrong wire, and snapped the connector off the switch.

I refuse to buy another one so I took apart a spade connector, stuffed it under the broken tab, and soldered it on at a 90 since that's the direction the wire wanted to go when I yanked it.

It's all in and I hopefully won't have to touch it ever again!!!

 

[Mullaney]

I swear, the damn fan switches are cursed! I got the switch installed, started wiring it, wasn't paying attention, yanked the wrong wire, and snapped the connector off the switch.
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I refuse to buy another one so I took apart a spade connector, stuffed it under the broken tab, and soldered it on at a 90 since that's the direction the wire wanted to go when I yanked it.
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It's all in and I hopefully won't have to touch it every again!!!
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Well... At least you can solder really well.
Sucks that it broke but at least you could fix it.

 

[Erik Unyielding]

Finished up last night, for now. So, along with the internal upgrades, I've added a lockup toggle switch with 4th gear pressure switch, cooling pan, pan temp sensor, external cooler with a 180 degree fan switch on the pressure line, temp gauge, tachometer, and capacity is now over 2 gallons of full synthetic Dex VI. I might switch the sensor to the pressure line, next to the fan switch, but I don't think that's super necessary at the moment. I'm really not sure what else I can do to monitor and support the 700R4 so I'm on to the next upgrade. Thanks for following along and for the advice along the way.