Yes SIR

 

Here is how I salvaged mine.

I started by flushing the devil of of the block, oil cooler, heater core and radiator.
After flushing I drained it as best could and filled with Shell Ultra ELC and distilled water. I mixed it at a 65% ratio, figuring there was trapped water in the block and passages. At the time I purchased a coolant bypass filter from Performace Manufacturing.

I then drove it for about 6000 miles changing the filter every week for the first month and then every other week until it quit getting any particulate in the filter.

The deltas were about 35 degrees apart at that time, but since the motor was running cool at around 191 degrees and I wasn't pulling anything the overheated oil wasn't really hurting anything.

At that time I drained and captured the coolant from the radiator. I then removed the oil cooler outlet cap under the turbo and removed the water pump.
Since the oil cooler is fed from a dedicated passage from the water via the front cover I figured I could just flush the cooler and leave the engine alone.

After removing the water pump I placed rags in the outlet ports of the front cover, in the bottom and on the side, leaving the one in the top that comes from the oil cooler open. I also place a rag in he inlet to the water pump in the center of the front cover. This would keep and trash from enter back into the system.

I rigged up about 15 feet of 3/4 x 1/2 inch clear poly line with a ball valve and a garden hose end. Placed the open end of the hose into the outlet port of the oil cooler and let it back flush the oil cooler for about 30 minutes. While it was flowing I would open and close the valve to great a burst of higher pressure to help dislodge and particles.

I then bough 4 gallons of evaporust and a small 120 volt pump that would flow 3 gallons a minute from Northern Tool. Also I purchased about 10 feet of 5/8 x 1/2 inch poly tubing.

Poured the evaporust into a 5 gallon bucket and hooked up a suction line from the pump amd hooked the hose to the outlet port of the oil cooler. I the shoved the smaller hose up into the front cover as far as it would go, and placed the other end beside the bucket. I turned the pump on and purged the water out of the oil cooler and then placed the loose end into the bucket, creating a looped system. I ran the pump for 45 minutes, then let it just set for 45 then circulated for 45 and so on till dark. I let the evaporust sit in the oil cooler over night, and began circulating it again the next morning and did it a few more times. I the flushed the oil cooler out with tap,water to remove any traces of the evaporust.

I then flushed the heater core with the evaporust, but not a vigorously as the oil cooler, and flushed it with water.

The water will drain out of the oil cooler and the heater core so there will be no mixing of the ELC.

After buttoning everything back up I the filtered the ELC through some blue paper shop towels i purchased at Wally world, and placed the coolant back in the engine and topped it off with 50/50.

It's been about 5 months now and my deltas unload run in the 5 to 8 degree range and when towing from the 9 to 12 degree range and are remaining steady.

Just my .02