Trans fluid temp gauge ?

[Beamer]

The car I recently purchased has a set of 4 gauges on the passenger dash panel. One of which is a tranny temp. I chased the wire down today to see where it went becouse I noticed that it was not displaying any changes while driving. I found it going into the engine compartment and coiled around itself up behind the turbo.

The car came from TX, and has a modified tranny pan with cooling tubes in a rectangular lowered addition in the pan. I also have a nice sized cooler in front of the radiator and the lines no longer go into the radiator.

Where and how would I connect this gauge? It is a VDO brand, and I figure it would not hurt to have it working... Is it even worthwhile to have on my car at all? I know the tranny was built several years ago with quality hard parts, but I am talking probably 7 years ago. It also has a StageRite transbrake in it.

Thanks for the help,
Mike

 

[4CE FED]

you'd have to have a sending unit in the trans pan. otherwise that gauge is useless.

 

[Beamer]

I was looking at the top link back that was attached to my thread. A VERY well known tranny guy says to put it in the return line from the cooler. The pan fluid is more stagnant than anything, and probably especially with the cooling tubes that I have. I just need to see about getting a sensor and then finding some sort of T set up.