No dipstick on 1989 era 3.0L?

[dingbat]

All this electronic stuff in a wet marine environment just seems crazy.

Not if it’s done right.
Been building equipment for an environment that makes the marine environment look like a clean room for longer than I can remember.

Electrical component failures are few and far between. Most failures we are called into truobleshoot are customer induced. Bad power levels, reversed polarity, failure to put protective covers back in place, bent pins on connectors, damaged wiring, etc.

Usually so you can discover a leak just before it's too late in my experience.

Easier to hit the button to monitor transmission performance in real time.
Same with oil level/pressure

 

[nola mike]

Usually so you can discover a leak just before it's too late in my experience.

That's what the garage floor is for.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Tbf, not sure what the point of a transmission dipstick is. If I'm down there I'm changing the fluid anyway.

Maybe so, however a setup that requires 2 people to check and fill a transmission is stupid.

One under the vehicle with a pump and fluid, the other in the car,with the car in gear and running is a recipe for disaster. The mods to the trans pan cost 3x the price of a dipstick

 

[nola mike]

Maybe so, however a setup that requires 2 people to check and fill a transmission is stupid.

One under the vehicle with a pump and fluid, the other in the car,with the car in gear and running is a recipe for disaster. The mods to the trans pan cost 3x the price of a dipstick

Car in gear and running? What?

 

[Pmt133]

Easier to hit the button to monitor transmission performance in real time.
Same with oil level/pressure

That's all well and good if you have a TFT/Level sensor. Most I've seen don't. Fords oil pressure gauges are mostly an idiot light.

My daily (not a Ford) doesn't burn oil. I check the level after an oil change and right before I am going to change it. There is a sensor that will illuminate a light if it gets low... though typically it's about too late if that happens. (usually failed cooler lines) Anything I routinely needed to check fluid levels on is quite old at this point in time so I get why it isn't a thing anymore. And the tech (when it's actually there) is convenient. The BMW self burps the cooling system with the electric pump when you change the coolant. That's very nice!

 

[nola mike]

That's all well and good if you have a TFT/Level sensor. Most I've seen don't. Fords oil pressure gauges are mostly an idiot light.

My daily (not a Ford) doesn't burn oil. I check the level after an oil change and right before I am going to change it. There is a sensor that will illuminate a light if it gets low... though typically it's about too late if that happens. (usually failed cooler lines) Anything I routinely needed to check fluid levels on is quite old at this point in time so I get why it isn't a thing anymore. And the tech (when it's actually there) is convenient. The BMW self burps the cooling system with the electric pump when you change the coolant. That's very nice!

It would be better if they started making coolant systems that didn't routinely self-destruct.

 

[Pmt133]

It would be better if they started making coolant systems that didn't routinely self-destruct.

I don't pick. I just deal with the aftermath of everyone else's poor choices and get paid for it.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Car in gear and running? What?

Yes, the process for filling and checking VAG and many ZF transmissions requires the car in gear and running to add fluid

 

[nola mike]

Yes, the process for filling and checking VAG and many ZF transmissions requires the car in gear and running to add fluid

That's crazy. Haven't dealt with this yet. This is only the second automatic that I've (sort of) owned