Oil cooler plugged?

Corys6.0 · Apr 13, 2018

Anyone ever seen an oil cooler plug in 8k miles? First 80 degree day driving home the deltas touched a 15-16 degree spread a few times. 70-75 mph. Truck is studded ******d straight pipe and tuned. I always heard this could happen every 30k miles but 8k miles? ****.

sootie · Apr 13, 2018

towing?

Corys6.0 · Apr 13, 2018

No towing . Just towed 5k lbs last week even in my race tune deltas didn’t break 10-11 degrees. It was in the 40’s last week now it’s 80 degrees out.

Decker · Apr 13, 2018

Possible, did you back flush first? Did you use oem oil cooler?

Corys6.0 · Apr 13, 2018

Decker said:
Possible, did you back flush first? Did you use oem oil cooler?

Brand new OEM oil cooler and did a coolant filter.

bismic · Apr 13, 2018

Are your cold engine temps (oil and coolant) the same?

Corys6.0 · Apr 13, 2018

bismic said:
Are your cold engine temps (oil and coolant) the same?

Good question. I can check that in the morning but IIRC they are off some.

DEEZUZ · Apr 13, 2018

Lol... I've had them clog within minutes... Depends on how cruddy your system was...

Corys6.0 · Apr 14, 2018

CTC DEEZUL said:
Lol... I've had them clog within minutes... Depends on how cruddy your system was...

This is nuts.

Decker · Apr 14, 2018

Should of cleaned the system out before putting in new cooler. Not just a coolant filter but actually flushing out the system.

Corys6.0 · Apr 14, 2018

Decker said:
Should of cleaned the system out before putting in new cooler. Not just a coolant filter but actually flushing out the system.

A big name shop did it all I figured they would have done that. I’m gonna call them. They said there is a 2 year warranty on the oil cooler IIRC.

junglejoe · May 12, 2018

For what its worth.. I have went through 5,yes 5 oil coolers after the Egr and oil cooler ruptured! I even used DC9 and at least 60 gallons of water to flush!!

79jasper · May 12, 2018

junglejoe said:
For what its worth.. I have went through 5,yes 5 oil coolers after the Egr and oil cooler ruptured! I even used DC9 and at least 60 gallons of water to flush!!

Sounds like the ipr full flow coolant filter (or similar) could have done you some good. Lol

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Corys6.0 · May 13, 2018

So is this a thing? Change oil cooler every 8-10k miles? I did a coolant filter when I did the bulletproofing. I can’t afford to change oil coolers every 8-10k miles. Remote oil coolers are big money. I’m not sure what to do. I already have tons of money in this truck. Runs amazing. Sounds amazing and is clean but it’s my daily and toes my race car so it needs to stay healthy. Oil coolers plugging every 6 months isn’t good.

79jasper · May 13, 2018

Right, but you have a bypass coolant filter. Which doesn't actually do much. The full flow one literally goes online to the oil cooler and will stop anything and everything.

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Corys6.0 · May 13, 2018

79jasper said:
Right, but you have a bypass coolant filter. Which doesn't actually do much. The full flow one literally goes online to the oil cooler and will stop anything and everything.

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Ahh ok, is that what most are doing? You have a link of the one you speak of?

79jasper · May 13, 2018

I don't think I've seen another brand.
https://www.iprresearch.com/IPR-High-Flow-Coolant-Filter-Ford-6.0-F250-F350-F450.html
Supposedly if you flush it well enough, it's not an issue.
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bismic · May 13, 2018

There are quite a few posts about back flushing w/ hose water and compressed air (to provide agitation) as being the most effective way of getting rid of heavy contamination.