;so, while waiting on rear leaf spring bushings to arrive, I started looking at my slight coolant leak.
hand sized wet spot under front center behind radiator... drips off of center link from lower radiator hose. I cleaned up underneath and it appears to be a hairline crack in the plastic part of the lower hose or the hose bibs on the oil cooler are leaking. oil cooler also has oil gunk all over it.

I researched here and found that I might need to find an O-ring to go behind the cooler to stop oil leak but if its the original oil cooler its time to delete or replace it
Problem is, that its a discontinued part and I do not see any aftermarket one...

https://www.tascaparts.com/oem-parts...Y4LWdhcw%3D%3D

trying to determine if another year or model cooler will fit. ie. possibly a 2000 V10 Excursion? cooler looks the same but a smidge bigger??? both trucks use an FL820 filter.
any ideas? or somebody solved this issue?
I could delete my cooler and get a non oil cooler lower radiator hose and use an FL1A filter right at the block.Then later, find a remote mount air cooler and add oil cooling back in

thanks for any input or ideas

 

It seems like the mustang guys just delete it based on a quick googling. Unless you're hauling some wicked heavy stone or something you probably dont need it

 

Buy a cooler for a 90s or 00s E-van with the 5.4. It's close enough in height to work and they're real cheap which is nice.

 

Perkins 2486A218

 

When I swapped the 5.8L into my F150 I deleted it and used a 5.0L lower radiator hose and a FL-1A oil filter.
I don't do a lot of hauling, so I didn't feel like I needed it.