Ford E-450 6.0 Turbo Diesel Overheating
We are getting ready to head out on another adventure with the motorhome flat towing my jeep. Last year while heading west out of Denver, Colorado the engine came close to going into the red on the t...
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Silicates in the antifreeze Ford used clogs the oil cooler. Install an aftermarket oil cooler with larger passages, and dump and flush the cooling system and use a non-silicate antifreeze like Caterpillar anti-freeze (commonly used in these engines). At best install a stainless Ford or aftermarket EGR cooler, to replace the original steel one. Steel corrodes thru, coolant gets into intake stream, turns to steam in the combustion chambers and builds crazy high cylinder pressures that stretch the torque to yield head bolts until the gaskets blow. If you don't blow the head gaskets, solving the EGR and cooling issues will buy you some time. Eventually high tensile steel cylinder head studs like the ARP ones need to be installed. I understand a FluidDamper on the crankshaft makes the engine a lot smoother also.
Keep driving it without doing some of the fixes, and you get in the situation Long Long Honeymoon got into.
https://youtu.be/TjxDLmqnt9I
https://youtu.be/egypz5muiEE
https://youtu.be/-ifJJcLk__Y
https://youtu.be/qPl2UwOePak
Fixed the links so they are clickable now. Indeed LoLoHo is a very good RV video producer, with lots of info fo both the experienced and the newbie RV'er. I enjoy their vids a lot.
Charles
Keep driving it without doing some of the fixes, and you get in the situation Long Long Honeymoon got into.
https://youtu.be/TjxDLmqnt9I
https://youtu.be/egypz5muiEE
https://youtu.be/-ifJJcLk__Y
https://youtu.be/qPl2UwOePak
Fixed the links so they are clickable now. Indeed LoLoHo is a very good RV video producer, with lots of info fo both the experienced and the newbie RV'er. I enjoy their vids a lot.
Charles
