Frenchy
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- First Name
- Chris
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- Elizabeth, Colorado
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- 2012 Nissan Frontier, 1994 F150 XL, 2022 Ford Transit
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- Field Service Technician
Take some time to go to the past. This includes both GM and Ford. For different applications primarily with trucks and vans they did offer both a standard and a deep pan for different applications. Along with the deep pan they required a different filter to accommodate for the lower pickup. There's your proof. Not good enough? Tough s***I can not believe this argument is still going on, yes it has become an argument. Also the are a lot of assumptions being put out there with no actual facts to back them up.
@Frenchy what PROOF do you have to make the statement that the OEM filter does not work just as well with the deep pan as the OEM pan? Is it just your assumption because the intake is not at the bottom of the pan. In most cases the pickups are put in a deep section of the reservoir but not at the actual bottom.
I will grant you that the aluminum pan, deep or shallow will probably only make minimal difference in long term temperatures. Which by the way is controlled by the heat exchanger using engine coolant. The deep pan with it higher capacity will take longer to reach that temperature. Again a probable minimal difference. The main advantage to the extra fluid is extra lag time for the fluid in the pan to gain some additional cooling from the fins and more time for any particulateatter to settle out before it gets pumped back through the transmission. The fact that there is more fluid below the filter pickup also helps this.
Since the filter is submerged to the same level below the top of the fluid with any of the pans makes the whole starvation a mute point. If your fluid is not at the correct level you have bigger issues to worry about no matter which pan you have.
Finally if you are off-roading and high center on a rock that will take out the deep pan then you need a better skid plate package, because it would have taken out the OEM plastic pan also
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