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...or diesel but I still like it.Jack Daniels is gasoline. The real stuff is Forty Creek
...or diesel but I still like it.
thermostat after pump in series, so with closed stat pump will cavitate and not overpressure the radiator. Additionally, whats the idea behind using V-6 fan? IS it electric? Wondering if it might save a little gas since I don't usually work my 03 too hard, with 153K miles and all original, save plugs and a battery change 3 years ago.Do you think that theory is because heat travels up ?
The water pump is always moving coolant through the engine via the thermostat bypass,whether the thermostat is open or closed.The pump doesn't cavitate,it just moves coolant through another portthermostat after pump in series, so with closed stat pump will cavitate and not overpressure the radiator. Additionally, whats the idea behind using V-6 fan? IS it electric? Wondering if it might save a little gas since I don't usually work my 03 too hard, with 153K miles and all original, save plugs and a battery change 3 years ago.
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Inside the red circle on what is to be reportedly the Tornado inline 6 for Jeep and RAM variants is a MAP controlled Coolant Thermostat.
Whether or not the housing is comparable with current models for RAM trucks is just a matter of time, but shows the need for a more resilient and adaptive coolant temperature managment sensor added to our current “budgeted” system.
With much respect to the poster. This is not 100% accurate. The addition of the thermostat creates a 2-part cooling system. There is “block temperature regulation” and “thermal dissipation”. The radiator performs the function of “thermal dissipation”. The thermostat regulates “block temperature”. There is nothing “regulating” coolant temperature. The coolant on the radiator side can get as cool as the environment will allow, before the thermostat opens to exchange cool side for hot side.A lot of people have misconceptions about coolant thermostats ,
They stop or restrict coolant flow to ally the engine in reaching optimum operating (closed loop) for stoichiometric efficiency sooner.
They do not however maintain the coolant temperature this is by design the function of the radiator.
I suspect there is a point of confusion here. The initially designed transmission bypass valve (TBV) is not electrically heated. I know the initial design had an issue where the bypass valve would stick in the recirculate position. Meaning the transmission fluid would never circulate through the transmission cooler. That condition impacted transmission fluid heat dispersion and would not be impacting the actual radiator coolant. In postscript I did not miss it, it was not relevant to the clarification of how the coolant system functions.Let me know if I get 100% of anything.
Because then I probably won’t need to be posting help or asking for opinions on the forums.
I realized a while ago that RAM already gave us a electronically heated thermostat with the transmission bypass and having another for the block itself is splitting hairs, thanks for the clarification of the facts but you actual missed that one also yourself.
When I started the thread I didn’t even realize there was a thermostatically controlled coolant thermostat but I knew somehow the design could be improved upon.
I understand the concept you write of , did you know there is a simpler explanation.
It is called “budgeted design”
Which of how many transmission designs you follow is pretty much lost in translation can you please clarify?
8HP70 Transmission Heater/Thermal Bypass Valve
The transmission heater has come up on several threads over the past few months, particularly by those who feel the 185 degree and higher transmission temperatures are too high. I'm one of them. Without gaining inside engineering data from FCA, it unfortunately will not be possible to find out...www.ramforum.com
Thanks for your opinions!