bought a new derale tranny pan from summit,claimes cooler fluid additional 3qts.w/cooling tubes,anyway i think it is more then 3qts,since it is 3 times deeper then original,my question is with a deeper pan(summit claims no added deeper filter pick up needed)would i still go by the tranny dipstick? if it is saying add? tranny is all newly rebuilt. am i right in thinking full level is full?regardless of how deep pan is? thank you for any input Darren

Full is full... A little deeper on the pickup would be good but the tubes being there limit how far you can go...

Yep - more may be below, but fill it to the original fill line.

thank you my fine men ,really what i wanted to hear

Quite frankly ... I would use a pan that has more capacity and just add a cooler into the line.

IMO .. that tube-pan is nothing but a gimmick.

doc,i tend to agree with you,first my original pan leaked no matter what,i wanted a pan that had a drain plug and larger capacity,double edge sword is i only have so much cash and so little time to cruise,sooo my thoughts where buy this pan stop the leak problem=crusie til octoberish over the winter add a true tranny cooler.basically been restoring since 2003 and need to get my a$$ behind the wheel.but i do appreciate yours and everybody elses thoughts

darren you should add a filter extension , CRT has them but you need to make some measurements to see what you need, I run my ram without one only because I needed a custom one that was not available in the depth I needed , ended up buying one from CRT and modifying it .

thanks john,crt contact thank you yet againDARREN

John Cope is a advertiser here.One of the best if not the best TF guy around.That and he is a nice guy.My kid has his tranny in the 62.Its bulletproff.Rocky

I ran that pan for 12 years on my bee with no extension and the tranny never over heated,it works good.Just hard to clean around them tubes when you rebuild or change fluid.The tubes do catch air cause it is deeper than stock.I think the tubes would be in thew way for deeper pick up also.......

thank you,6pack i will do the same,and i feel better hearing your input

Came with the car and recently redid trans so know about washing around tubes,it is better than stock pan.I went b$m deep sump aluminum on new build.Everything built for morepower,have 2 trannies and have tube pan on back up..