I can only correct so many idiots per day. I don't need to branch out and find more. I have a few transmissions from one of the best builders out there. A couple in our TJ's and the one in my Dodge dually diesel 3500. When he is providing the warranty and tells me to put the sender in the pan and why, I tend to listen.Agreed, however in the days of diesel rams, heavy stock trailer towing and browsing ram forums you'll find guys arguing this one like "what oils the best" or where should the pyrometergo, before or after the turbo kinda pissing contests.
The great thing about the internet is regardless of any position you wish to adopt, there will always be those who will agree with you. Agreeing with you does not make you correct; it just means you have managed to find someone with a similarly fucked up viewpoint.
I have a truck camper, a diesel tow rig, and a pretty decent trailer to tow the rig on. I've spent some time on related forums and by and large, those fucks will argue about any and everything purely for the sake of arguing. My camper is a Lance, I did some research and the overwhelming opinion was they are the top of the line and they charge accordingly.
After spending about a month with it and getting to know a few things, I discovered that Lance uses the same 98 cent latches and cabinet hardware the supposed shit builders use. There are two major manufacturers of water heaters, all RV companies use the same two. There are only a small handful of refrigerator builders for RV, they all use the same ones. The cabinets are picture paper wrapped particle board. The faucets are the same cheap ass piece of shit RV faucets that they use in all the low end RVs. There are many QC errors made when they did the building, screws missing, run in at horrid angles, just basic shit craftsmanship.
When I pointed that out with pictures on the RV forum, I got told that Lance uses low paid help with low skill levels. Hold on a stinking minute. I've done some of that type work. In a production environment even a moron will be able to run a screw gun by the end of the first day. At the end of a week he will be as skilled as he will ever be at that job. I find it very unlikely that the entire unit was done by folks who had never built one before.
So again, tell me what makes Lance the best. Well they are Lance. Fuck off, this is the same shit build that I see in the other RVs. OMG, you disparaged Lance, get the pitchforks and torches.
Here is what I know about pyrometers previous to any factory installed units.
If they mattered as much as the forums would have you believe, the factory would have installed on with a giant red warning light that kicks on at a certain temp. Buddy had an 05 similar to mine, read the same shit and then drove out to CA from the Midwest many times to wheel in JV.
One evening he was relating that he was slowing down going up the hills to keep the exhaust temps down. But, he was getting passed all the time by rigs of similar years towing bigger loads and he could see as they went by there was no pillar gauge pods on most of them. In other words, what the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve. I know that if I try to run mine by what the forums tell you is the max EGT temps, I may as well get out and push the damn thing. I don't run a tuner, I don't have any mods except a gauge set. My EGTs are never what the forums tell you is safe going up hills. I also pulled the trans at 120,000 and had it rebuilt even though it never missed a lick. Sure it is better now but it never had an issue. According to the forums, it should have died backing out of the driveway. I have a set of new unit bearings from Mopar sitting on the shelf since according to the forums, they are good for 50,000 miles. More than 3 times that on these and they are still very fine.