I thought I would post some info and pictures about my IPR remote oil cooler, filter, and Gen3 EGR delete. I had new heads with machined stainless o-rings installed this winter and I added the IPR remote oil cooler because I had a gut feeling there was a ton of crud in my engine.
I currently have 182k on the engine and swapped to red elc coolant and Diesel Site filter at 92k. At 172k I saw radically rising oil temps and decided to use Restore and Restore+ to see if I could squeek another year out before going into the engine. In the middle of flushing I noticed the putrid smell of diesel and finally realized it was in the coolant!.....mmmm....not good.
So, I started gathering information and parts and had a local friend who's repair shop has done 8 previous sets of 6.0 heads. They swapped out the heads and I immediately brought the truck home and did a full Restore and Restore+ clean and flush. Between the before repair flushes (2 restore 1 restore+) and post repair flushes (restore and restore+), I bought well over 100 gallons of distilled water at WalMart.
Immediately after cleaning and flushing I finished the install of the IPR remote oil cooler and filter and thought I was good to go....wrong!
I immediately had hot oil temps.....hmmmm. Filter was clogged. I cleaned it and it plugged AGAIN within 5 minutes of high idle.
Long story short, I cleaned the filter well over 50 times in the first couple thousand miles. I had some kind of silica and rust pit in my engine.
I think the problem with typical coolant filters is they are a low flow bypass that isn't getting enough velocity to catch the goods. With the IPR filter, my truck would go about 20 minutes and then clog. If I revved it at all, much, much less. Higher rev's stirred the crap up, clogging the filter.
I also think the problem with flushes is that the bulk of the sediment falls into places in the engine that don't get drained well after shutting the engine off.
As the weather got hotter I started catching goo, presumably from the mixture of combustion gasses of leaking headgaskets and diesel in the coolant.
I feel most certain that had I installed a factory location oil cooler I would have been going back into my engine again. I am up to 2-3k miles between cleanings depending on how the truck is being used.
If the coolant filter completely clogs, the dummy cooler in the engine cools enough that you can keep driving it and not be stranded.
The IPR remote cooler, filter, and Gen3 Egr delete are very high quality products supported by a very helpful, easy to get ahold of guy.
I currently have 182k on the engine and swapped to red elc coolant and Diesel Site filter at 92k. At 172k I saw radically rising oil temps and decided to use Restore and Restore+ to see if I could squeek another year out before going into the engine. In the middle of flushing I noticed the putrid smell of diesel and finally realized it was in the coolant!.....mmmm....not good.
So, I started gathering information and parts and had a local friend who's repair shop has done 8 previous sets of 6.0 heads. They swapped out the heads and I immediately brought the truck home and did a full Restore and Restore+ clean and flush. Between the before repair flushes (2 restore 1 restore+) and post repair flushes (restore and restore+), I bought well over 100 gallons of distilled water at WalMart.
Immediately after cleaning and flushing I finished the install of the IPR remote oil cooler and filter and thought I was good to go....wrong!
I immediately had hot oil temps.....hmmmm. Filter was clogged. I cleaned it and it plugged AGAIN within 5 minutes of high idle.
Long story short, I cleaned the filter well over 50 times in the first couple thousand miles. I had some kind of silica and rust pit in my engine.
I think the problem with typical coolant filters is they are a low flow bypass that isn't getting enough velocity to catch the goods. With the IPR filter, my truck would go about 20 minutes and then clog. If I revved it at all, much, much less. Higher rev's stirred the crap up, clogging the filter.
I also think the problem with flushes is that the bulk of the sediment falls into places in the engine that don't get drained well after shutting the engine off.
As the weather got hotter I started catching goo, presumably from the mixture of combustion gasses of leaking headgaskets and diesel in the coolant.
I feel most certain that had I installed a factory location oil cooler I would have been going back into my engine again. I am up to 2-3k miles between cleanings depending on how the truck is being used.
If the coolant filter completely clogs, the dummy cooler in the engine cools enough that you can keep driving it and not be stranded.
The IPR remote cooler, filter, and Gen3 Egr delete are very high quality products supported by a very helpful, easy to get ahold of guy.