msw0085

hey yall

chris wanted me to ask the board for some input and help here. He has been driving for 6.5 hours with plenty to go and is towing 5500lbs plus a trailer. He says the shifter is getting too hot to touch when he shifts and is worried about whats going on...

I told him he is overloaded and the gear lube may or may not be up to snuff as it was...
I think he just wants to know if he is in danger of breaking something or putting excessive wear on his parts...

He says he has been going slow and the guages are all normal...HELP?

msw0085

he said that if anyone wanted to help, to text him on his cell phone. 503 860 7443

r0cky

bumppp

waskillywabbit

iTrader: (-1)

He doesn't have a temp gauge on his tranny, cause it sounds like it is getting mighty hot. Towing that much weight is foolish period...

Best of luck, but only real thing to do is drop some weight before he drops a tranny!

dragr1

iTrader: (3)

His profile says he has a 3.0 V6 and 5 speed. The clutch may be slipping and causing it to heat up. He needs to drop some of that weight, he's way overloaded. At least pull over and stop for a while.

User 051420

Chris has my number..He's letting it cool off for a bit. I'll help him out tonite if he needs it!

Tofer

made it back safe.. thanks guys once again

dragr1

iTrader: (3)

Glad you made it!

User 051420

Yay! Now lets go wheeling before I sell the truck and dive into my Grandma Wagon.

Tofer

sounds good... i want to get my tranny flushed first tho.. i want to make sure i didnt mess anything up.

Tofer

more details to the story: i wasnt towing 5500 lbs. i went to the truck scales and my truck weighed 5500lbs, plus i was towing a 1600 lb trailer, so 7100 combined truck and trailer. the center hump and shift boots always get warm but this time they were hot. i had my trusty 10mm socket that lives in the leather boot and it was so hot i couldnt hold it in my fist for more then about 4 or 5 seconds before it was burning my hand had to let go. the GVWR on the door jam said 5400lb so i was only 100 lbs over on that and my towing capacity according to my manual is 2k. i stopped in Reeding and let it sit for about an hr and half and the continued going, but my the time i sit sacromento and hr and half later it was hot again. i never smelt anything burning and the tranny/tcase are still dry so i wasnt boiling fluids over or anything. i have now unloaded the truck and about 100 lbs out of the trailer, and i will find out in a couple hrs when i have to drive it to Livermore how it handles it. like i said i do plan on doing a tranny fluid flush this week cuz i have a feeling i burned it out.

coming over the passes it felt rock soild, granted i was in 3rd in the sholder getting passed by semi's cuz i was only doing 40 mph but i never let it get over about 3500 RPM the entire trip. my average speed from the time i left was 56mph. and i was getting better then normal MPG at about 16.7-17. when i drive the trip empty and average 73 i get like 15.5. when i was going 55mph i was only turning 2500 RPM vs the 3500 i turn when doing 70 (yay for my factoryt 4.56 gearing)

Flamedx4

For what it's worth, with my 85 and now with the 90, on summer days pulling the passes for example (anytime the rig has been running long enough to heat sink everything metal basically, then add more load) the heat from the hump (feel the seat belt bolts on the floor!!) and in the shift lever would get very very hot. Way more than 'normal.' I changed shift knobs on the 90 for that reason.

One thing people can do that helps is if you ever redo your exhaust, keep it a bit farther from the trans (and floor too if you can) and invent better heat shields. The extra heat doesn't help...