Resurrecting The Monster - My '05 Excursion

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Jan 28, 2019 | 09:30 AM

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Toreador_Diesel

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I should have time to get it back running this week, the one question NO ONE has answered or even formed a consensus on is: Should I run water first to flush things out? Or just run coolant and let the coolant filter and oil cooler do their job?

Jan 28, 2019 | 09:56 AM

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I’d figure out a way to flush with distilled water. Maybe force it through with compressed air so you don’t have a bunch of crud clogging your oil cooler once you get the truck running. You know how I roll...

Jan 28, 2019 | 10:30 AM

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It's a hard issue to comment on. It's the same installing an oil cooler and then figuring out if you should flush. The good thing is that any rust particles should be caught in the input of the oil cooler, and being hard particles have the potential to be reverse flushed out.

Jan 28, 2019 | 11:11 AM

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Has anyone tried to fit a stainless steel mesh filter basket in the inlet of the oil cooler to catch the particles before they enter the cooler?

Jan 28, 2019 | 11:28 AM

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t kind of already does that. You just have to backflush it out of there. And that's a tricky pathway.

Jan 28, 2019 | 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by FiznUKa

Has anyone tried to fit a stainless steel mesh filter basket in the inlet of the oil cooler to catch the particles before they enter the cooler?

Everytime I'm in the sprayer section of Tractor supply I wonder if these screens would fit but I never measured. But then again the intake side of the cooler isn't as easy to get to as the output so cleaning it would be an issue unless a back flush is enough to clear the screen.