The Kerb Warrior Donating Members 612 Member For: 12y 6m 27d Gender: Male Location: Perth, Western Australia Posted 17/11/13 06:49 AM Share Posted 17/11/13 06:49 AM Hey guys,Since I've had my car its felt a little off, and I plan to be taking it to Simon to have the car, and ZF retuned. It seems to really need it.But I just quickly wanted to know, how hot is too hot for these gearboxes? When I was driving down from the country, getting in the high 100's (kms per hour), for hours at a time, I was getting to 180-200F at some stages, which I was getting cautious with, so I slowed down a lot and got it down to around 160-180F.The other day I got stuck in the city, stop start, on a hot day, and my gearbox was at 220F and climbing.When I arrived at my destination I tried to let it cool as much as possible before driving again, and it got to about 170F before I started driving again. Went up to around 200F while driving again until I got on the freeway which it actually cooled down to around 160F. It didn't seem to like the stop start driving. The car also has a Transmission cooler.On my last ZF I never had gauges for the trans temp so never really saw how hot it actually got, so I just wanna know if this is normal? More often than not for general driving I'm at 130-160FJust wanting to make sure its not going to explode haha. Cheers Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,331 Member For: 19y 6m 30d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 17/11/13 09:34 AM Share Posted 17/11/13 09:34 AM It's fine temps are normal. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1440821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JETURBO ...JD TUNING ADELAIDE... Gold Donating Members 23,708 Member For: 16y 10m 22d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 17/11/13 09:41 AM Share Posted 17/11/13 09:41 AM ^^^ this guy ^^^ Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1440822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 17/11/13 04:06 PM Share Posted 17/11/13 04:06 PM Needs a (new) avatar! Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1440873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 19y 2m 9d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/11/13 07:55 AM Share Posted 18/11/13 07:55 AM Mine runs about 75C in normal traffic in summer peak hour goes to about 90C. At Queensland raceway it spiked at about 103 but dropped to 98 after a cool down lap. In winter in the highway it sits at 68. I have external cooler behind passengers fog light. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1441017 Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 19y 2m 9d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/11/13 07:59 AM Share Posted 18/11/13 07:59 AM Now that I have Googled the conversion your temps look fine Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1441018 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kerb Warrior Donating Members 612 Member For: 12y 6m 27d Gender: Male Location: Perth, Western Australia Posted 18/11/13 09:17 AM Author Share Posted 18/11/13 09:17 AM Ok good good, I thought it was ok, but I just wanted to make sure. Thanks guys Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/86803-zf-safe-temperature-etc/#findComment-1441040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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