With the transmission out for the Suncoast and Shift kit is it time to put a hole in the tranmission pan for the transmission temp or does it matter, can it wait?

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'06 Jeep Liberty Sport CRD with: GDE Hot Flash and Tranny Flash, ehm, Cummins fuel pump, 3" Magnaflow muff, Moog K3199's, Skids, 225-75-16 10 ply, OME springs, Euro T/C, Shift kit, Trans cooler w/thermal bypass, Bigboy bkt, Samco CAC, Brake controller, Trans temp gauge, Al's Upper Arms

You can have the PML pan made with a 1/8NPT fitting. That's what I have.

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Ryan
2006 Ford F-250 PSD CC FX4
**GONE**
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD
SAMCO Hoses//GDE Tune//PML Trans Pan//TransGo HD Shift Kit//MBRP Exhaust

1986 2R Mustang SVO

Here is another posting. If you stick with the steel pan, braze a fitting in about the same location. You may want to braze on a fitting for a drain as well.

http://picasaweb.google.com/warp2diesel ... missionPan

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2006 Pearl Green CRD
Magnaflow 2 1/2" Cat Back
KJ Extra Leg Room Brackets, Carter Lift Pump, V6 Airbox, ORM
Fuel cooler, Oil Separator, Progard 7
Gauges EGT Boost Trans Temp Oil Pres, Michelin LXT AT2 245 70 R16
7,000# Draw Tight hitch, PML EX Deep Trans Pan
Centrifuge, SunCoast, Transgo, RAM TCM, InMotion Stage 2
Wife's 99 TDI VW Beetle

It is easier to cut transmission coolere return line and install a T than drill a hole in the pan.
I think for my installation something like the B&M transmission temp kit is going in on the return side of the Thermal Bypass unit. Even though the B&M gauge is a bit ugly.
With the Thermal Bypass unit if the transmission fluid gets hot, say 180*, the fluid goes on to the cooler, otherwise it just loops back to the transmission.
With the temperature sensor just downstream of the Thermal Bypass unit if the TB unit is failing or the cooler is not working The temp will indicate the increase and there will really be a problem.
Make sense?

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'06 Jeep Liberty Sport CRD with: GDE Hot Flash and Tranny Flash, ehm, Cummins fuel pump, 3" Magnaflow muff, Moog K3199's, Skids, 225-75-16 10 ply, OME springs, Euro T/C, Shift kit, Trans cooler w/thermal bypass, Bigboy bkt, Samco CAC, Brake controller, Trans temp gauge, Al's Upper Arms