2017 3.6 pentastar temps?

[Yellow dog 55]

does this seem right? Seems a little high for highway cruising in 70 degree weather.

 

[huntergreen]

Perfectly normal. My wrangler runs about the same.

 

[Mpgrimm2]

Yep, the temps in my 13 ram did the same, 8spd trans. typically runs hot too

M² Mods.

 

[crash68]

Don't worry about the transmission temp unless it starts to exceed the coolant temperature.

 

[Neil E]

I had my cruise set at 71 yesterday, 79 degrees out, and my temps never got higher than

224
183
224

You look great!

 

[Yellow dog 55]

I did and oil change on it for the first time last week. The oil looked like **** that came out of it. I switched to mobile one and used a mopar filter this time. And what a stupid placement for the oil filter.

 

[Rado]

My 2015 Pentstar runs around the same temps ! I was concerned when I first got my RAM but like you found out they do run hot ! Still bugs me lol

 

[huntergreen]

I did and oil change on it for the first time last week. The oil looked like **** that came out of it. I switched to mobile one and used a mopar filter this time. And what a stupid placement for the oil filter.

What oil did you use ? And how long did you run it ?

 

[Rado]

I did and oil change on it for the first time last week. The oil looked like **** that came out of it. I switched to mobile one and used a mopar filter this time. And what a stupid placement for the oil filter.

On my motorcycles I had conventional oil at first and like you the oil looked like **** after a oil change.. When to 100% synthetic and first oil change was not as bad as conventional then each change looked better. almost to the point on saying why change now lol.. Even with 100% synesthetic I still change truck and bikes at 5k. You will see the difference next change. Synthetic has better thermal break down and carbons less..
YMMV

 

[Yellow dog 55]

What oil did you use ? And how long did you run it ?

I’ll check later. All oil changes were done at dealership prior to this one. I changed it this time 100 miles before the sticker the dealership put in the windshield. Oil change meter was still at 29% when I changed it yesterday.

 

[PoMansRam]

My 2017 Ram 3.6L is the same. I've driven in 92F+ degree days and had coolant temps well into the 220s and trans temps around 210-212.

I've read that the danger zone for trans temp for the 8spd is 240+

In regards to engine oil, when I did my first oil change I had about 7500mi on the dealer installed (unknown) oil. What drained didn't look bad at all. This was with a made in China oil filter element. My truck was bought used with 12K miles on it.

I put in Napa full synthetic 5w20 and a Napa gold filter.