Ford and GM are overheating, would the 2019+ Ram?

[ramffml]

YUP, it got a lil warm, LOL. But U know, any truck could do that. They also had the Chevy with the 6.2L in that video and the trans went to 300 degrees, yup, cook eggs on that tranny, LOL... Around here, a lot of PPL are buying Silverado's with the new 3.0 Duramax, and they R imploding at 5,000 miles, hmmmmmmmm, wonder wat is the issue? Or were they just 2 truck unicorns in TX? Hmmmmmm.....all IMHO...

Ironically, that tranny in the GM/6.2 was designed and built by, you guessed it, Ford (GM tuned it for their own truck of course, but its a Ford transmission).

 

[turkeybird56]

Ironically, that tranny in the GM/6.2 was designed and built by, you guessed it, Ford (GM tuned it for their own truck of course, but its a Ford transmission).

I guess it would be funny, but not if U owned that truck.

 

[Firebird]

I pull 9000 pounds in the Florida head, and I've never seen anything other than normal engine temps. The highest reading I've ever seen on my trans is 170°

 

[Farmer Fran]

I pull 9000 pounds in the Florida head, and I've never seen anything other than normal engine temps. The highest reading I've ever seen on my trans is 170°

Very flat though. And that is a VERY big difference, as I am sure you know

 

[Firebird]

Very flat though. And that is a VERY big difference, as I am sure you know

Definitely! But I'm still pretty pleased with the temps. My Ecoboost would run so hot down here

 

[Farmer Fran]

Definitely! But I'm still pretty pleased with the temps. My Ecoboost would run so hot down here

Yep, boosted is no a heat friendly motor

 

[turkeybird56]

Look into adding water heater tube insulation to your ac line. Helped my 2017 out quite a bit. Has to be closed cell insulation. https://www.ramforum.com/threads/my-ram-ongoing-project.97961/post-2349150

For 2019, they have done a lil better ref AC lines. The one BIG FAILURE is the cool pressure line, where RAM has the hot return pressure line and the coolant line next to each other and both run basically less than 6 inches behind the 850 watt cooling fan attached to front of engine. I have some 3/4 heater hose I bought and and I am gonna just wrap that part of the line being blown on by the fan and see how much better it does, DOES not help RAM in 2019 and part of 2020 did a very lousy job on the HVAC system when it was redesigned for the 5th Gen trucks and has been redesigned and a TSB has a lot of parts being replaced etc under TSB. All above IMHO...

CAVEAT: Wrapped majority of cool pressure line that runs in front of rad. Guess we shall see. I actually can get 46-45 degrees out of Pax center stack vent, which is 11 degrees cooler than the 57 degrees it used to be before the TSB being done.

 

[Farmer Fran]

Bought my 2020 in march of 2020. Will have to look a doorjam for build date. AC works great in it, south central NC

 

[turkeybird56]

Bought my 2020 in march of 2020. Will have to look a doorjam for build date. AC works great in it, south central NC

They found the problem in 2020, just not know when the re-did the HVAC and design differences from the earlier Gen 5's, which is what I own.

 

[runamuck]

I have pulled my 6000# travel trailer in some real heat and never had any high temps..on a cpl. 100*+ days I had maybe 190* tranny temps..last week in 98* feels like 103* I had 183* tranny and 239* oil towing at 68-69 mph on I-35