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Oil in coolant 6.0 powerstroke10/13/2023 ![]() ![]() So well that it never started the next day untill I repaired it. I came home from Florida, 2000K miles, with a falling FICM module and was able to baby it till I got home. If a breakdown happens you will be shown by the gauge before it does happen. I also use the ScangaugeII with great results and feel that everyone towing a trailer should learn to use one. I have a friend with high delta on the oil cooler and we plan to do a clean flush and give it a test and see if my assomption will work he just uses his truck to plow in the winter, so no summer work. I wish I did not change my cooler last fall to see if the ELC would clean the cooler as it did the rest of my cooling system. Now I regret not saving my cooler and see if it was usefull again after drying out. That tells me I am right that its just a sludge that collects and can dry out. This spring I looked at my cooler again and noticed the the passages looked dried up so I blowed in the water connection and no more resistence. The passages had lots of air resistance at the time. I removed my oil cooler last fall and cut it to see the plugging in the passages. And yes the EGR cooler has nothing to do with failures, it's the oil cooler that collects the sludge deposited by the improper Gold coolant. I chose to stay away from the Ford Service center so I will have a very dependible truck. The G05 coolant was a mistake by Mercedes Benz in 2000 and now we are finding the results with our trucks out of warranty. It needs to be flushed out before 100k and replaced with a Heavy Duty coolant approved by IH. In my experience the Gold Coolant is for Gas and light duty diesels and not for the medium duty diesel engines such as the 6.0L by IH. So here I sit truckless waiting for Ford. The next call from them was to tell me that they found a broken exhaust valve and it needs 1 head and a block, but we all have to wait for the area Ford rep to come and look at it and verify what happened for it to be covered under thier warranty. The next moring the dealer calls and says it still has a dead cylinder with no compression and they have to pull the head to find out why. 2 days later they called and said it was a bad injector and I would have the truck back the next day. Lucky for me I was only about 50 miles from home, so I called a friend to come and take the BH home for me, and then had the truck towed to the Ford dealer that does all of the warranty work for me. Of corse this had to happen while towing the BH. Truck was running great like it always has and then all of a sudden a bang, a miss, some smoke, and no power. We were driving home from a great week of camping and thought the only worries we had was going to work on Monday. Since I'm a diesel mechanic I'm very thorough with maintence since I know all the problems with this engine, but untill now no major problems with it. For starters I have a 2006 F-250 with a 6.0 and about 58,000 miles on it. ![]()
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