Trans, Diff and U-Bolt issues

After all this, I feel like drilling a hole in the side of mine and making one.

Now at the maintenance intervals, I need to make sure the tech does the same procedure [emoji849] what a time consuming process.

Standing an waiting for the transmission to get to the 'perfect' check temp, the tech mentioned how much extra time\$ it costs everyone because there is no dipstick. They should have given us a sight glass of cold\hot or a straw that operated at optimal or cold temperature.

The straw that is already there operates at a temperature somewhere between cold and operating, the tech said it's hard to hit right because you have about a 30 second window while the transmission warms to hit the window, then do the check.

Now IF the red straw that was in the was just a touch shorter, one could do a check of fluid when "cold"... No need to bring it up to a silly temperature before checking. BUT define "cold"? Depending on ambient temperature cold could be anywhere really (30c or -30c) ... That doesn't work... stupid mistake removing that dipstick...

Any mechanical engineers out there have a solution for us to this lack of dipstick? Would be cool to see an aftermarket part come out so we could manage it ourselves...
 
Checking the fluid is fairly easy. Get an OBD type gauge or dongle that can ready tranny temp, get to the correct temp and pull the check plug.
 
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