Okay guy's do I have too keep the oil cooler on my 1994 F-350 460 engine,its a 4x4 but I do not do any hauling or towing just normal driving,I live in Las Vegas, Nevada so it does get hot during the summer but that's all.I would prefer just putting a remote oil filter on it.What was the purpose of Ford putting the oil cooler on the engine in the first place ?

 

Anybody can help

 

much debate on this one. Search and you will find info on this deletion of OEM oil cooler. Also, there was a thread recently on replacing with an older version of the cooler that was air to fluid instead of the water to fluid

 

It's quite simple. Just cooling the oil and help keep engine temperature down. It's the second coolant system of an engine. Also, I may be mistaken, but overall lower engine temps help reduce emissions.

I just did a mod on my 1994 F350 with a 460. Like SoCal said, I took off the oil cooler that uses coolant as a heat exchanger, and put on a late 80's early 90's oil cooler that uses a radiator type cooler just like a transmission fluid cooler.

Mine had a leak and I had oil leaking into the coolant gunking up my radiator. You might get the reverse and get coolant in your oil, a big time problem there.

If you need any help let me know if you want any pointers, but luckily the 92-97 trucks already have the holes in the radiator core support for the mounting bolts, just need to tap them with threads.

 

Since you are going the remote way, adding a cooler will be extremely easy. Just put it in-line before the filter.

 

You can get the Ford Racing oil filter adapter, a thermostatic sandwhich that has the oil filter screw into it, and has tapped holes for oil cooler lines. Basically has a thermostat that opens up to let oil flow through the lines to a remote mounted cooler. It's what I'll be doing in the long run.