I thought a lot of the drop-out will be from the SCA and not necessarily left over casting sand. If that is true then a coolant that requires no SCA would not benefit much from a coolant filter. If I'm not thinking about this right please let me know.

 

Robin,

I suspect your assumptions are correct in this.

However, when I eventually change to ELC (and I WILL some day), I'm going to leave my filter in place. As Roland said in Post #11 in the referenced thread:
Pop

 

Thanks Pop. If I had not gone to ELC I would have a coolant filter. I spent time and money to run ELC in an E99 already. If I had a filter I certainly wouldn't remove it.

I don't know if it was mentioned in an earlier post but it's quite possible that the SCA drop-out may cause earlier water pump seal failure so filtering out the SCA will help in that regard.

 

Didn't you EVER!!?!?!?

Pop

 

I had the stock yellow-gold coolant in my truck bought new, never had to add SCA's to mine per Ford's new coolant added to the newer trucks and after a coolant flush this is the mess I found per my 100,000 mile ELC conversion so I would say it would be a great idea to run one, IMO

 

Speaking of coolant filters, mine was almost completely plugged after about 2-3k miles. And I did a coolant flush maybe a month before. Best 100 bucks Ive spent imo. Also, I thought you cant use elc in e99? Cause i can get cat elc for free I was going to switch but I read not to run it?

 

Kyle,

You are correct about not putting ELC in an E-99.

The sealant between the heads and the injector cups is incompatible.

Talk to Robin about the change-over if you REALLY want to get into the ELC game.

Pop

 

Didn't I. . . . . . . .

 

A friend of mine who has been running ELC found out just how incompatible it is with the old injector cup sealant. While he had his old injectors out during a replacement he pressurized his cooling system and found coolant seeping past 2 injector cups. Not leaking through cracks in the cups, but seeping past between the injector bore and the cup. He replaced all his cups and used the new sealant. While removing the cups none of them snapped out like they would if sealant was holding them tight. The old cups just slowly eased out. To me that indicated the sealant had failed and/or was begining to fail on all the cups.

I have replaced all the cups, new o-rings and gaskets in oil cooler and new water pump o-rings and gaskets. The only thing I haven't replaced that comes in contact with the coolant are the head gaskets. I'm just going to keep my fingers crossed. If a head gasket goes then I will do gaskets and head studs.

 

As Mike says, if you've never run the SCA additive in your coolant such as the 03's, what is the sediment filtered out, then?

 

I have seen threads about wires chafing in the steering column of our trucks causing electrical problems. Would that be considered topic for preventative maintenance?

 

I'm guessing you just hit reply and didn't read the thread, eh?

Post #13, already covered bro.

Stewart

 

The sediment was from whatever the coolant was pre-charged with.
There was certainly some type of anti-cavitation erosion additive.

 

Read the thread, just did not realize that the chafing was from the shifter. When I tried to follow the link in #13, it asked for information, so I did not continue to follow the link. Actually I had not realized that the chafing was caused by the shifter since I have a palm shaker.

 

There are other wires prone to chafing other then the OD cancel switch wire. The chafing on the other wiring I believe is from the use of the tilt wheel, if equipped. Some tilt it down everytime they get in and back up everytime they get out. That is a lot of repetitive motion on the wires in the steering column.