New 2011 Canyon Star 3411

[Richie]

Picked up our new Canyon Star 3411 ( F53 chassis Ford V10 6.8 Liter 362HP) last week in Colleyville (outside of Dallas) and drove it to San Antonio. I noticed the water temperature on my Scan gauge was 204 degrees while on the HWY cruising at 55-60 mph. Ambient temp. was in the 50's and raining. Is this a normal temp. on this engine? Also, what would be a normal temp. for the transmission? I would appreciate any feed back. Thanks in advance.

["007"]

Welcome Richie to the Newmar forum & irv2.
Congrats on your new Canyon Star many safe miles for you.
You may find your heat limits in your owners manual looking at this PDF your temps look like they are within a safe range. Look at page # 11.
Enjoy the forums and do post often.

[DandS]

Richie - I have a 2010 Canyon Star with the same engine. My ScanGauge water temps run between 198-206 degrees and my trans temps are 167-172 degrees normally. I would say 204 would be a little warm for the conditions you describe but not out of the expected range.

Congrats on the new coach and happy travels.

[Richie]

Dands,
Do you have the code for the scan gauge for this engine?

[DandS]

Not sure what info you are requesting but, if it's the X gauge codes see the attached. You can also download this from their web site.

F4EDF23Dd01.pdf

[Richie]

Dands,
I am looking for the code to program my scan gauge to read Transmission tempreature.

[Richie]

Dands,
Thanks for your help. I think I found the code. I'll try it in a few days.

[Luv2go]

Ritchie, Dave pointed you in the right direction for trans fluid temp, the code that worked for me was the first trans fluid temp in the Ford CAN list, but if one does not work the other should.. My transmission temps in similar situation (flat roads, 65MPH) would be in the 160 to 170F range. I've seen it go over 180F only on the 8% 5 mile grade up US421 on route to Boone NC, it may have gone to 182F or so on a 95F day in summer.

I use CHT (Cylinder Head Temperature) instead of water temp and see flatland (60-70MPH) CHT's of around 205 to 215F, depending on speed and headwind. Water temps seem to be about 10F lower. Going up the US421 grade CHT's get to 226F in summer. My thought there is if CHT gets above 226F for any period of time there is a problem. CHT will go down to 195F and stay there going down the same grade, which happens to be the water temp at the time.

BTW, I've never been able to get CTQ (Torque into converter) to work, I'd be interested to see if anyone has with the Ford V10.