Hi, I'm Wade from Thoroughbred Diesel.
Today, we're going to be showing you the ATS Doomsday Device.
So ATS has come out with what they call the Doomsday Device.
Now, this is marketed for the Dodge Cummins 68 RFE owners.
And the year will be 2007 and a half to current.
But truth be told, this will really work on any automatic transmission dipstick.
So why was this developed?
So the 2019 to 2020 Dodge three quarter ton and ton trucks with the 68 RFE had a national
safety recall done on them.
That is NHTSA recall number 20V-043.
If you do some research on that, you can read about it quite a bit.
If you own one of these trucks and you have not gotten the recall information, listen
to what we've got to say here.
So again, 2019 trucks with 2020 three quarter ton and ton trucks with 68 RFE, approximately
about 85,000 vehicles in that.
What was happening with these trucks is you were having a buildup of pressure in the transmission,
pressure and heat.
And that was expelling transmission fluid out of the transmission dipstick.
And where the transmission fluid was coming out, it's in close proximity to your exhaust
manifold and turbocharger where the engine produces heat.
So it is a fire hazard.
There were some of these trucks that actually burnt down because of this failure.
So Dodge came up with a fix for that inside of this recall bulletin.
It actually tells you what's done to the truck.
There is a new lower valve body that will be changed out onto the trucks.
There are two orifices on this lower valve body.
It's going to increase the [inaudible 00:01:57] size on one of the holes on the valve body.
I know you probably can't see that here.
Again, the recall talks about it and that's supposed to alleviate this.
There's also some PCM programming that will come along with that, and we'll get you taken
care of.
But ATS saw this recall and came up with a device that is going to keep the hot transmission
fluid from being able to push out the dipstick tube past the dipstick, fall on the exhaust
manifold and possibly cause a fire.
So again, it's called the Doomsday Device.
How this works.
There's set screws around the base of this device.
Now these set screws are going to go and they're going to lock down onto your transmission
dipstick tube.
It's going to hold that in place right there.
Then the device also has a lock for the dipstick itself.
So then you'll put the dipstick back in.
It'll lock down with this clip right here to where it cannot be pushed out.
So now if you have this failure, what's going to happen here is this is going to force the
transmission fluid up.
It's going to stop at the dipstick where it cannot escape from, and it's going to be rerouted
through the hose and safely away from the exhaust manifold out into a spot of your choosing.
So you don't have to worry about it going to, again, another ignition place that can
catch it on fire and burn your whole truck down.
This would be good for guys that already have scheduled to have their recall done.
And it's a couple weeks out.
If you want to get one of these just for safety's sake.
We suggest probably that you don't drive the truck, but if you want to get one of these
for safety sakes.
But it's also good just to place one of these on the trucks.
What's it going to hurt?
If you have this problem, if you have this failure, this is going to keep you out of
a possibly doomsday situation.
So the ATS Doomsday Device, we are going to actually link you inside of this video and
on the selling page for this product to the TSB or the safety recall for the trucks.
So you can get information on you on for that because that's the most important part.
We're also going to link you to a page where you can purchase this Doomsday Device for
your vehicle.
And we are going to do a small installation video showing it to you on a truck and what
it's going to look like.
So if you have any questions on the ATS Doomsday Device or this recall or anything else, we'll
be glad to help you.
Just give us a call and thank you for watching.