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Idahome
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Ditch the factory oil cooler
You are better off using an external oil cooler of your choice.
Oil temp is not really a problem on a 302 in a Ranger
IMO
The factory cooler is OKAY but Ford did away with it in 98 and you should too
When there is a problem they mix water and oil, not something you want happening in your engine
I have seen two go bad over the years, once they mix you are screwed!!! Huge mess and problems
So you have three choices:
1. keep the 96-97 style oil cooler (boo hiss)
2. Use the 98-01 adapter and lower rad hose (yeah! still uses 820s small filter)
3. Use a canton billet oil filter adapter, hoses and remote filter mount so you can use a Fl1a filter, then you can easily plumb a oil cooler, pressure gauge, even mount the filter where it will get cool air all over it (HOORAY!)
Last edited on Tue Aug 27th, 2019 09:56 am by 410customs
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