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I have the Banks Big Hoss Bundle with the PDA and have been watching the Engine Oil and Coolant Temps slowly diverge. (A Friend and Ford diesel mechanic told me to watch the temps.) I have achieved a delta of +16 deg F (for short periods). I guess it's time to fix the oil cooler problem. I plan to install the head studs and the coolant bypass (?) lines on the heads at the same time.
On another note, I installed the MagHytec transmission oil pan and my tranny temps dropped significantly (added 8 quarts capacity). Also cooked the limited slip differential clutches and replaced in kind with a 0.30" tighter pack and added the MagHytec diff cover (added 2 quarts capacity). Just a heads up. The MagHytec stuff is high quality.
Again, excellent post! I will use your information to repair mine.
2003 6.0 SD-SB Crew Lariat, 89,000mi. Love the truck, even with it's quirks.
I tested the truck by hooking my 8000lb trailer up and pulling it - and that's when I found out about the $300 sensor!
I thought for sure, as I was dead along side the freeway that I was not only going to have to spend lots of $$$ to fix the truck but pay for some $1200 tow - very ugly.
I'm taking my good buddy the long-time Ford diesel tech out for dinner tonight - he drove an hour from his place on a Saturday along with his tools and diagnosed, pulled, purchased and installed the destroyed sensor in about 45 minutes after he arrived.
Saved my ass -it's good to have friends.
The engine oil temp is in there - I'll look it up tonight and tell you what it's called on my unit.
I can't get my insight an computer to communicate. The fusion software connects but the insight controller says it isn't connected. I'm gonna give edge a call in the morning.
Well I found out today that the issue with connection is that the Insight software doesn't work with Windows Vista. I can't believe this, I not too happy and they don't seem to have any date to resolve it. Total BS IMO.
Ran the insight in an xp pc today and it connected like it should. So i setup all the parameters that I wanted to monitor. I get it back in the truck and didn't have them in my display. I definatly saved them to the insight so now I'm not sure what to do. I don't seem to have any oil temps only egt,ect and a few other useless parameters. Is it possible that the oil temp isn't monitored? On the bulletproof setup it just relocated the cooler to the front lower cowling?
Not to hijack this thread and turn it into an Edge Insight question session, but it sounds like a handy tool to have on a 6.0L (or any diesel) trucks, especially for preemption on oil cooler and EGR issues. My question is, are the temp. sensors for the EOT and other points already installed in the truck, or do you have to install temp sensors wherever you want readings to come from?
Is there any interest in pictures surrounding the replacement of the oil cooler with the bulletproof diesel mod?
Definetely interested. I was looking at your first pictures yesterday and the cooler you have looks quite a bit different from the Bulletproof website. Interesting.
Not to hijack this thread and turn it into an Edge Insight question session, but it sounds like a handy tool to have on a 6.0L (or any diesel) trucks, especially for preemption on oil cooler and EGR issues. My question is, are the temp. sensors for the EOT and other points already installed in the truck, or do you have to install temp sensors wherever you want readings to come from?
Yes, the EOT and ECT are already monitored and can be exposed via the Edge Insight - just don't try to run their software on a Vista PC
I set mine up so one of the screens shows nice 2 bar graphs of EOT and ECT - easy to compare at a glance. Also set up the alarms to monitor both ECT and EOT.
Not to hijack this thread and turn it into an Edge Insight question session, but it sounds like a handy tool to have on a 6.0L (or any diesel) trucks, especially for preemption on oil cooler and EGR issues. My question is, are the temp. sensors for the EOT and other points already installed in the truck, or do you have to install temp sensors wherever you want readings to come from?
They must be there, at least for my 05' 6.0. I don't have Edge Insight; I have a Banks Powerpack with their PDA. I have been monitoring ECT vs EOT since last summer, so the sensor must be there!
Definetely interested. I was looking at your first pictures yesterday and the cooler you have looks quite a bit different from the Bulletproof website. Interesting.
From what the Neal Technology guys have been telling me, it's the same cooler but they found an alternative position to mount the thing.
It's definitely a substantial piece of hardware - very stout construction. The alternate mounting location ends up not changing the outside appearance of the truck at all - looks stone stock unless you know where to look for the cool billet oil filter mount.
[quote=mlwest;1844596]Yes, the EOT and ECT are already monitored and can be exposed via the Edge Insight - just don't try to run their software on a Vista PC
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