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| The finned exterior of the PWL Titan oil pan give it more surface area to help disperse heat. It also gives the pan more strength, important if you bottom it out offroading or something bad. The thick pan body reinforces the transmission case and helps prevent leaks in the rail area. |
To hopefully cure our transmission overheating woes, we installed the PLM Titan transmission oil pan. The PLM pan holds 3.5 more quarts than the stock Nissan pan. When draining the oil from the pan, usually only about 4 quarts of the transmissions total capacity of 11.25 quarts will come out. The PLM pan ups this to 14.75 total quarts of fluid so you will need 8 quarts of ATF when you install this pan. We used Amsoil’s synthetic automatic transmission fluid due to its superior high temperature properties. You will also need a replacement OEM pan gasket.
In addition to higher fluid capacity, the PLM transmission oil pan has many features such as baffles to prevent sloshing that also act like heat sinks to conduct heat from the fluid to the finned exterior of the pan, thick wall construction that helps strengthen the transmission case, thick sealing surface for leak free service, a boss for a temperature sender unit and a magnetic drain plug.
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| The baffles inside our PWL pan help prevent fluid slosh away from the pickup and act as heatsinks to help draw heat out of the oil and conduct it to the finned exterior of the pan. |
Since we are servicing our transmission and our differential, we also changed the fluid in our transfer case with 2.125 quarts of Amsoil ATF and changed the front diff fluid of our 4X4 Titan with 2 quarts of 75w/90 Royal Purple gear oil.
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| Our pan in place, hopefully this cures our issues and shuts Mike up! |
Hopefully these simple measures will cure the Titans problems as we are sick of Mike bragging about how good his Tundra is. So far we haven’t had an issue at all but the weather is cold. We will update this story in the summer when we have some long hot tows under our belt with this combo. Stay Tuned!
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Hello, I would like a update on the larger trans pan for the Nissan Titan. Did it help with trans temps?
Thank u
Any updates? I’m having the same issues as well on
My 2004 Nissan 4×4. I currently have 120k mi on it & would like it to last longer.
Thank you