Oil Cooler Leaking

Curtis@Vision Diesel · Mar 12, 2012

I believe my oil cooler is leaking. My motor is out of the truck due to when I blew both head gaskets. Question I have is, Truck had no oil leaks prior to when I blew head gaskets, when truck was in the shop I had oil leaking from oil cooler location. Was hard to tell exactly if that is where it was coming from. So is it common or could the oil cooler started to leak due to the head gaskets being blown? When the head gaskets went, I also blew a freeze plug out the back of the passenger side head. Just curious if there is some kind of relation in order to get an oil leak that fast. Or am I totally wrong and need to look else where? Any tips or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks guys,
Curtis

Derek@Vision Diesel · Mar 12, 2012

spike in coolant pressure blew out the oil-cooler orings?

Curtis@Vision Diesel · Mar 12, 2012

That's what I was thinking, but have no idea.

Zaairman · Mar 12, 2012

It'd be super easy to rebuild with the motor out, might as well replace it anyways...

TyCorr · Mar 22, 2012

Yeah, those suck to do in the truck,imo. I would do it for.sure. You can probably get orings and just clean it all really well and reassemble. Or you can replace it($$$) all.

Derek@Vision Diesel · Mar 23, 2012

Rebuilt it last night along with a meling LPOP!

TyCorr · Mar 23, 2012

Derek@Vision Diesel said:
Rebuilt it last night along with a meling LPOP!

Thats high on my list of "to do's" when my.motor comes out for spring cleaning.

Racer X · Mar 25, 2012

TyCorr said:
Thats high on my list of "to do's" when my.motor comes out for spring cleaning.

Good idea while it's out.

TyCorr · Mar 25, 2012

Racer X said:
Good idea while it's out.

Yeah, you'd literally have to be in a situation where you needed the truck immediately and didnt have another 75bucks to spare in order to skip it.

Dieselcraft · Mar 25, 2012

I did head gskts on a 6l under wrnty
I got the pre assembled oil cooler kit
Started truck found oil leak at oil cooler area.
Took it apart 3 times intake wise before it clicked in my head the oil cooler o ring to cover could of leaked took oil cooler apart found the o ring destroyed from assembly
It was leaking out of the weep hole on cover

That kicked my a$$
Never trust pree assembled parts
LMAO