A scanner is the easiest, you can datalog with that. You can also datalog with an SCT handheld device and a labtop (just one more reason to go with an SCT over anything else), or you can physically get some gauges hooked up. You check your oil cooler by watching engine oil temp and engine coolant temp. The oil cooler basically regulates the temp between these two and tries to keep them the same. As it becomes clogged on the coolant side it does this less efficiently and this leads to blown egr coolers and blown headgaskets too, thus the importance to monitor it.

Fatboyslim, tough to say man, but if it was puking coolant once, it doesn't just go away you know what I mean? You should find a hill and do a WOT blast up the hill and read your temps at the top.

 

I hear ya man ahh the joys of the 6.0. I still wonder if ny coolant was overfull since it got to about a quarter inch below the min line its been fine. I will try the uphill test asap.

 

It may be, some of them "self-level", and some of them are even happy with coolant level even lower than where Ford says it should be. I've seen some that were ok with ~ 1" of coolant in the bottle, almost nothing.

 

But if there is only 1" of coolant wouldn't that just give the tank more room to pressurize? So the coolant wouldn't come out of the cap bc the cap is already bleeding off pressure of 16 psi before the coolant can reach it?

 

It's a closed system. Coolant isn't compressible... So less coolant means more air, which means more volume that is capable of being compressed.

Mine right now bleeds pressure off but doesn't push much coolant at all.

 

I have a new oil cooler and an EGR delete, any ideas why im spewing coolant all over only when i give it full throttle?

 

Are you filling it past the minimum line on your degas bottle? From what I know so far it's probilly your head gaskets.

Clean the degas bottle and anything arond it and fill to minimum line, get the track up to temp and find a long hill and get on the skinny pedal up it and see where it's coming from.

 

its actually below the minimum line, and i dont think its head gaskets because the coolant is coming from what looks like a filter right under the hood in the middle towards the cab. (Sorry im not sure what its called)

 

Have to wait for someone to chime in on this one, bc I'm not sure what it is... I think the only place I've seen coolant filters are by the passenger battery

 

Can you get a picture? Or find a generic picture on google and circle the area it looks like it's coming from. This description of location is exactly where the EGR cooler is, or where your bypass would be for a delete... might be as simple as a bad o-ring or something.