Ranger Mods

I've purchased a Ultragauge 1.2 and being a total Luddite when it comes to programming is there anyone in the Blue Mountains to Blacktown area who can show me how to program it ?

The features I would like are :-

Engine Coolant Temperature in C.
Transmission ATF temperature in C
EGT in C
Boost Pressure in PSI
Oil pressure in PSI
Alternator Voltage

The other pages could be any other relevant info such as the individual tyre pressures.

I'm quite prepared to pay for the time spent.

Iainboyd wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:07 am I've purchased a Ultragauge 1.2 and being a total Luddite when it comes to programming is there anyone in the Blue Mountains to Blacktown area who can show me how to program it ?

The features I would like are :-

Engine Coolant Temperature in C.
Transmission ATF temperature in C
EGT in C
Boost Pressure in PSI
Oil pressure in PSI
Alternator Voltage

The other pages could be any other relevant info such as the individual tyre pressures.

I'm quite prepared to pay for the time spent.

V 1.4 is the one to have
https://ultra-gauge.com/ZC/index.php?ma ... 13121b3211
You also need to select.....
You will get an option to choose Ford Can 2008+ on the same page.

Can't help you setup an Ultraguage long distance.
If you chose OBDLink I could have created a dash, setup what you wanted and exported the file.
All you would have needed to do is import the file in the OBDLink app and all done.

RossPat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 10:33 am

Iainboyd wrote: ↑Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:07 am I've purchased a Ultragauge 1.2 and being a total Luddite when it comes to programming is there anyone in the Blue Mountains to Blacktown area who can show me how to program it ?

The features I would like are :-

Engine Coolant Temperature in C.
Transmission ATF temperature in C
EGT in C
Boost Pressure in PSI
Oil pressure in PSI
Alternator Voltage

The other pages could be any other relevant info such as the individual tyre pressures.

I'm quite prepared to pay for the time spent.

V 1.4 is the one to have
https://ultra-gauge.com/ZC/index.php?ma ... 13121b3211
You also need to select.....
You will get an option to choose Ford Can 2008+ on the same page.

Can't help you setup an Ultraguage long distance.
If you chose OBDLink I could have created a dash, setup what you wanted and exported the file.
All you would have needed to do is import the file in the OBDLink app and all done.

Hi Ross,
It's all good, the Ultragauge version I had couldn't be programmed -- lucky for me it ceased to work so I returned it to the supplier ( Precise Auto ) who tested it and found it to be defective and offered to replace it under warranty so I happily paid then the additional for the "M" version and I've entered the PID's for the readings I wanted, my only issue is the Automatic Gearbox gear select, it only shows "1" as soon as the Wildtrak is running once it's moving it shows the change in gears, 1-2-3-4-5-6 but not "N "P" or "R" - is this normal ?
The other morning it was 6*C here and I had to drive the 135 kilometres to Bathurst. The ATF temperature when I started off was 18*C. engine coolant temperature was 26*C. By the time I arrived at Katoomba ( going uphill ) the engine coolant was up to normal 87*C but the ATF never got higher than 75* until just before Bathurst when it finally reached 82*C at which point I had arrived and the engine was turned off. The return trip home wasn't much different, Coolant 87*C, AFT 82*C.

1-2-3-4-5-6 but not "N "P" or "R" - is this normal ? YES

What maths are you using for ATF?

My engine and trans temps are always the same as the ambient temp before the first startup, or close to it.
Yours seem to be too high.
Strange the ATF stayed well below the 92deg thermostat temp if stock.

saeb wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:02 pm 1-2-3-4-5-6 but not "N "P" or "R" - is this normal ? YES

What maths are you using for ATF?

Stewart,

Straight from your sheet; (Sat Jul 08, 2017 11.22pm. )

Transmission Temperature,
Ultragauge.

07E1221EC0000 93 31 2010 621E1C 000A 0010 0000 05 00 32 *C

Standard thermostat, Koyorad Radiator ( +30% coolant ) Deep finned Alloy transmission sump - it holds an additional 6 litres of ATF.

RossPat wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 8:12 pm My engine and trans temps are always the same as the ambient temp before the first startup, or close to it.
Yours seem to be too high.
Strange the ATF stayed well below the 92deg thermostat temp if stock.

I hope mine stay a tad above ambient before start-up, for example this morning here in Bullaburra it was -3*C - the coldest local morning temperature since 2010 !
Remember I wasn't towing and sitting on a very cruisy 95 kph for 80% of the way - the rest were either slower urban speed zones or roadworks - down to 40 kph. These temperatures tend to confirm the 52 mm SAAS analogue gauge that I went by before I used the Ultragauge, regardless of towing or not towing the ATF never went over 90*C even on +40*C ambient days.
The thermostat is stock but as I said, the radiator is a Koyorad unit with 30% more coolant and I have a deep finned alloy auto sump that hold an additional 6 litres of ATF and the coolant and ATF temperatures do drop if the engine is "free-wheeling" for example going down hill on Mt. Victoria.

I've installed UG MX1.4 with little or no issues encountered save for the Instant Litres per 100Km (Inst L/K abbr.) - it just shows 999.9 and never changes. Has anyone encountered this and how did you fix it? Is there PID data for it to enter as an MGauge? Can't see this one in the PID calculator.

cheers

bim05 wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 1:10 pm I've installed UG MX1.4 with little or no issues encountered save for the Instant Litres per 100Km (Inst L/K abbr.) - it just shows 999.9 and never changes. Has anyone encountered this and how did you fix it? Is there PID data for it to enter as an MGauge? Can't see this one in the PID calculator.

cheers

The stock calculation in the Ultragauge settings works for me
Very close to the vehicles L/100 klms reading

Thanks, but still no go for me - I thought it may have been the Injector Cutoff setting, but it's set at the default 'zero' value per the UG Manual.
Issue lies elsewhere

saeb wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 3:02 pm 1-2-3-4-5-6 but not "N "P" or "R" - is this normal ? YES

What maths are you using for ATF?

Okay, Stewart and Ross this is very odd,
So, yesterday in preparation for our coming trip to the Kimberly I did a ATF and ATF Filter change yesterday, a shit of a job as again, while its level our drive is crushed terracotta and not the best thing to be laying on even if there is a thick tarp under me.
The ATF used was Nulon "Syntrans" fully synthetic and meets ( and is claimed to exceed ) "Mercon V" grade ATF as specified by Ford.
Okay with the larger alloy sump it took 10.5 litres to just a millimetre above the "full" mark on the dipstick. I took it for a run a lo and behold for the first time ever the ATF temperature followed the engine coolant temperature by around 8*C until it peaked at 88*C and stayed there for the remainder of the trip - around 20 kilometres. I checked the ATF level, cursed the hot exhaust pipe and it was spot on, exactly on the full mark. No ATF needed to be added or drained off.
Okay so why would this be ? Why after only changing the filter and fluid would the AFT temperatures all of a sudden go up to what is regarded as the correct operating temperatures ? As far as the volume of ATF drained goes its just about equal to that volume of new ATF that replaced it.

Environmental factors and engine load.

Even stranger is it only took 10.5 lts of fluid, in a pan that is 6lts larger
Mine is stock and takes 10 lts if the torque converter isn't flushed
Correct temperature is open to conjuncture but around 80 is considered the optimum maximum

RossPat wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 12:24 pm Even stranger is it only took 10.5 lts of fluid, in a pan that is 6lts larger
Mine is stock and takes 10 lts if the torque converter isn't flushed
Correct temperature is open to conjuncture but around 80 is considered the optimum maximum

According to the Ford 6R80 service manual the standard Ford steel sump pan should only take an initial fill of 3.3 litres of ATF and then it should be rechecked with the engine running and the gear in Park with the fluid up to operating temperature and then topped up with a possible additional .5 of a litre - if needed.
If the Transmission including the torque converter has been pumped out or the gearbox overhauled the system should take 11.35 litres of ATF. So by an explanation I'm guessing that you may have an after market transmission cooler that being higher than the sump it drains out when you are doing a filter and fluid change so that's the reason why you need over 10 litres. Is this a possibility ?
Mine took 2 off 4 litre containers plus 2.5 litres from the third 4 litre container - in all 10.5 litres. The drained fluid was roughly he same volume +/- .25 of a litre as I pumped it from the catch tray back into the by now two empty containers to go to the local recycling station,I'll have to come up with a third empty container for the residue.
So I'm guessing 3.3 litres + 6 litres for the additional sump volume = 9.3 plus the "additional amount" of 1.2 litres that always seems to drain out of the valve body and into my face, beard and hair while I'm struggling underneath to locate the new filter and sump gasket
Anyway I've checked the fluid level now twice and its spot on the "full" mark and have the burns on my wrist off the exhaust pipe to show for it.
Only Ford could put the dip stick/filler point in such a stupid location !!!
I'm relieved however that the fluid temperatures now seem to be in line with what you and others are getting, as to why the change - I just don't know, maybe the sensor was playing up.