6.0L FLUIDS FUEL AND FILTERS - POWERSTROKE FORD DIESEL

Probably the biggest thing people get wrong about a six-liter engine is the

fluids

in the

filters

and the

fuel

. These things are absolutely crucial to get right in the six-liter engine. The six liter engine is built to a level of precision that the 73 was not if you use the wrong

fluids

in your truck it will not run properly, antifreeze is probably the number one mistake when using the correct motor oil, if you don't use the correct engine oil, you can damage the catalytic converter and possibly have an expensive repair, put in the correct automatic transmission fluid, the correct differential fluid and make sure the fluid changes properly in the transfer case.

Ford go coolant is the correct coolant for your truck. Okay, your molecular lee is more stable than the coolant that was. available 10 years ago, that really contributed a lot to some of the problems, maybe a lot of the problems that the leading Ford Powerstroke 6 had in the early days, because what would happen is that the solution, the inhibitor package that's in reality would fall. coming out and becoming solid again would end up in the oil cooler and end up in the areas of the cooling system that would restrict flow and then you know overheating would happen and then if you're not paying attention you could damage the head gaskets.

That's one of the problems with old type coolant. I use Ford Gold coolant. It is the correct content. They say it's a hundred thousand miles. I don't know and I don't trust him. I would change it. You know, between thirty and fifty. thousand mile intervals just to be absolutely sure, the other thing that has come out these days is coolant

filters

, coolant filtration systems are very inexpensive, 150 bucks, most places you can get a filtration system really good coolant, it's very easy to install and I I mean, if it takes you an hour while you smoke a cigarette and drink a beer, it would be a long time to install one of these systems.

You know engine oil cooler replacement is very, very expensive on these trucks, so you get the idea. Putting in a coolant filter is a very good idea. I wasn't a big fan of filters at first, but once I started picking up a bandsaw, I opened up a few of these old coolers as they appeared and saw the goo coming out of them. As for coolant, I became a believer, so the correct coolant for your truck is Ford Gold coolant. Now, if you want to deviate from the flight plan and use other things, that's your business, but my recommendation is Ford Gold coolant, as well as antifreeze. your own ideas about motor oil, okay, there are certain things that people like or don't like, the fact is that all motor oil in general over the last five years, ten years, has changed so much. dramatically because of EPA standards that I can't even begin to tell you how good modern motor oil is, just the standard She repeal of things that exist is much more stable than what they had ten years ago, so the oil engine available on the market is exceptional. today you know 5,000 mile interval changes, you know it depends on the duty of how you are using the truck, a lot of people like to go a little further if that's the case and I suggest you do Blackstone tests, you know, do a Test your oil at a 5,000 interval to see if you really need to change it because the oils are much more stable premium upgrades in terms of motor oil out there.

AMSOIL is common. See a lot of that, the one that's off. The one on the shelf that I've really liked is the Rotella t6, which is an exceptional oil that we've seen that actually helped fix some injector issues, you know, cold start type situations. There's one here that they recently changed for me. Moving on, a customer named Hydro Tech brought in a truck that had been running this and claimed the 25,000 mile oral integrals had an injector tip failure. The original set of injectors on a 250,000 mile truck so I had to look into this. This is an industrial company.

To buy it you have to buy it from a local representative. One of the main challenges with oil and a 6 liter is the fact that the high pressure oil pump cuts the oil so brutally that it breaks it down faster than of course combined with the heat, pressure of being a

diesel

influences this, but the way you cut the oil will actually break it down faster. Super premium oils like Hydro Tex or Schafer, which I have not represented here. I've seen really good things in shapers. If you are going to use these oils, I highly recommend doing a Blackstone type test where you take a sample of your oil and send it in and check it at five thousand mile intervals to make sure there is no metal or

fuel

. or anything contaminating in the oil when it comes to automatic transmission food, there is only one option for the craft LV six liter engine, if you put this in there it will change a lot, you will bring it to me and tell me you need it. a transmission what you don't need you just need to go get a couple boxes of this and clean it now here's the deal the automatic transmission on 6006 4 is our great transmission I mean they just don't break but you have to change the fluid from time to time, I mean intervals of 30 Happy to 30 or 50,000 miles, you should automatically change the emissions foods, put the correct Ford automatic transmission fluid in it whenever you have seen someone deviate from the plan in terms of what type of transmission fluid they put in their truck, it costs shifting problems, difficulties or sloppy boats or whatever, then they think the tuner is going to know the problem and they bring it out and it becomes a lot of problems when The only thing wrong is that the viscosity of the oil is causing an internal problem in the transmission.

One of the other places people cut corners to try to save money on maintaining their six-liter Power Stroke truck is with filters. Aftermarket filters are found, but I highly recommend them. that you do not use the correct filters for your truck are from For now we are going to take a few minutes and we are going to compare the Ford filter with some of its competitors here this is the Navigo filter this is a pure rear standard, this is a pure rear premium built into the number one filter media, it's not the same, okay and you can see it here on the standard Purolator filter, although it looks very similar to the Ford filter, this is the Ford Fold filter, although it looks very similar, you can see here that the P Relator leaks the glue and is already falling apart, which means that under the pressure and heat that this filter will be exposed to inside the engine, this thing will implode and be sucked into your engine causing a lack of oil flow. and boom, your engine has gone bad and the real tragedy is that if you don't see an engine at the bottom, they won't honor your warranty and you're done.

Spending over ten thousand dollars to replace your engine. I've seen it a couple of times, people come here looking for help. Now the Nampa filter in the P relator premium filter are pretty good filters, but the problem with them is that the height, what happens is that this filter is patented by Ford, so they have to make small changes so that it is not a patent infringement, of course, they won't sue them, so one of the things they changed is the height. of the filter, but what happens is that this filter does not sit properly in the reservoir and as a result you have a fifteen to twenty percent bypass of the oil that is not even filtered, it just goes through the filter, maybe even more. 50%, so these filters, these aftermarket filters are just not doing an adequate job of filtering the oil.

One of the biggest problems Ford had around warranty claims for the injectors had to do with the fuel filter, the fuel filter that Ford supplies for the six-liter model is a very specifically designed piece that not only has the standard filter media inside this membrane. This membrane is crucial for it to function properly. This membrane is what separates the water from the oyel. If that membrane is not present, you will be sucking. water in its injectors, note that the Napa filter does not have the membrane. It is absolutely crucial that you have this membrane. There's nothing wrong with necessarily having a wide filter, but you have to have this membrane again.

This is a patented product. Okay, now this is a trick question. Where is the best place to buy filters for your automatic transmission service? Let me see, that would be to listen to. I'm not a Ford salesman, honestly, if you don't mind, but the fact is that Ford makes the right products for the truck. this filter, the one that goes online. I've seen one of these things implode an aftermarket one and destroy the Ford transmission and lug nut, warranty aside. Ford has to back up the products they sell and there it is, you know these other guys if your truck breaks down, well it's not their problem, but if it breaks down and they put a Ford part on it and that's on Ford, it's not up to you, one of the other areas that directly affects your fuel injection system and the six liters is fuel, the word "we." What we're going to use here is that cetane is basically like octane and gasoline, it's a number that deals with the fuel's fuel beyond that, an important scientific explanation in an organic chemistry lesson, that's all we're going to use here. you really need to know.

The higher the cetane number, the more fuel you will get out of the fuel, although 40 is considered the minimum cetane number you can use in your 6-liter Powerstroke

diesel

engine. The fact is that there is no industry standard, it is everywhere. I have heard reports of people finding cetane and doing cetane testing on certain pumps with values ​​as low as 29 which will make your truck run like garbage and then up to 48 which is good there are literally hundreds of products available in the brand that They claim to help improve the cetane in your diesel fuel, how many are the most common ones you can buy at Walmart or anywhere?

It's from the energy service this is pretty good it gives a little cetane boost and it's cheap okay the bottom line it's cheap and easily available probably all the time the best fuel supplement is made by a company called standardized anodyne is a diesel pump manufacturer and their injectors couldn't find a diesel fuel additive that met their specifications in their diesel pumps so they made their own and this is probably the best cetane booster additive. It doesn't increase cetane, but it does increase a couple of points, but the lubricating additives in this product are absolutely exceptional.

Probably the best known fuel and oil additives company in the world. The country is Lukas and Lukas has an excellent throughout all of them. Probably the best additive to increase c10 is from the Ford Motor Company itself. You can now order it online from 4.com or you can go to your local dealer and pick it up if you want. I will be in cold climates. I recommend using the anti gel seat reinforcement system. It has a couple of additives that prevent the fuel from gelling. Now all of these additives will do so you know there are several things that we want to get out of our fuel additives we want an anti gel we want a cetane booster and we want a lubricant additive probably the superior lubricant additive would be the standard and probably the superior cetane booster would be Ford either of these products is better than using no additives at all.

All you know is that additives come at a certain cost, but if you want to get the maximum life out of your fuel injectors, it is important that you consider using these additives at all. his six-liter Powerstroke diesel truck. At first glance, you know the three applications, the fluids and the filters. In the field it looks pretty rudimentary, but you'd be surprised how many trucks arrive here and the customers don't understand this. It is absolutely crucial that you follow the things I explained here. The six-litre diesel engine is an absolutely incredible piece of technology. preview I can't, I can go on and on about the technology involved with this engine, but if you don't take care of it properly and use the fluids that were designed to be used in it, you're going to have problems with the truck and it's just not going to go as far. how can