SeanPwnery
Active Member
- Nov 30, 2022
- 147
- 64
- Truck Year
- 2016
Just a thought... the saying "The aftermarket provides" seems to have walked right past our little pasta-diesels when it came to these valves. Dodge wants 300 for a piece of plastic with a 6-pin sensor... kinda bonkers. The aftermarket options are 60 dollars or less, but ... as things have played out - I'm about to replace my 3rd one in 2 years. They drop right in, and I've got the replacement down to a half-hour job - but (rant begins) - how hard is it to get the sensor inside these damn things right?
I guess I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get the OE one. In all honesty - this is the first time in almost 30 years of turning wrenches where the aftermarket failed to "do it better."
I mean... in all honesty - I kinda like it running at 185 degrees here in south Texas rather than into the 210's, but that's just my gasser side still being nervous about 2-hundred anything temps. I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should figure out what resistor I can wire in just to shut the ECU up like when I deleted the oil temp sensor on my T-bird after removing the garbage OEM oil cooler that failed.
(rant over... for now)
I guess I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get the OE one. In all honesty - this is the first time in almost 30 years of turning wrenches where the aftermarket failed to "do it better."
I mean... in all honesty - I kinda like it running at 185 degrees here in south Texas rather than into the 210's, but that's just my gasser side still being nervous about 2-hundred anything temps. I'm starting to wonder if maybe I should figure out what resistor I can wire in just to shut the ECU up like when I deleted the oil temp sensor on my T-bird after removing the garbage OEM oil cooler that failed.
(rant over... for now)