The first time I pulled the blower the IC was dripping with oil..I thought I would check and see how the dual seperator setup was functioning after 5K miles....

 

One more...

 

Seems to be doing it's job quite well. Nice too see you've got so much free time to yank the blower for little reason. But hey, now we all know.

 

You do realize how long it takes to pull an Eaton blower off of a Lightning right? Maybe not..

 

We all have our moments...

 

in all honesty... it was stupid responce. Yes i know it does take about a hour to yank the blower with all the crap in the way. Just at the time the idea of simply yanking the blower to see if there was oil on the i/c was alittle funny to me. Lack of sleep is a bad thing... im off to bed.

Just ignore me today.

 

I think they were saying it is a stupid response because it is pretty damn easy to pull the blower. I think mine came off in 30 minutes if not less when I did my swap. I am a slow azz worker too. But yeah, it really isn't all that big of a deal.

EDIT -Mat-

 

You have me now Mat.....Apten but Works? Do you know of someone sending me one? Clue me in Bro... :-)

 

I read somewhere that the bolts that hold the blower on are a 1 time use only. Do you use the same ones or buy new?
If you buy new what is the part number?
Also what are the torque specs?

Thanks

 

they are torque to yeild bolts, but when ford did the IC recall, most trucks did not get new bolts.

just keep that in mind, on cylinder heads they are using bolts in the hundreds of PSI, the s/c only produces 8-16 (pulley used)

so i'm doubting the re-use of torque to yeild bolts is a problem atlest with the s/c'er

 

Sorry must have ya mixed up with someone else. My bad. I am fool. -Mat-

 

When I had my blower and IC out before I reused all the bolts and gaskets with no problem. This time I'm getting new gaskets and bolts. I have heard the torque spec. for the blower to IC is 35 ft lbs.

 

JeffsLightning,

Your pictures just came up for me. Your inter-cooler isn't as clean as you think. A clean, clear oil film is hard to see. But the lite brown haze color is the left over oil film. There is a whole lot more oil film on the inter-cooler's cooling fins you can't see. It take 3-4 cans of carduretor cleaner to flush out all the oil film. Been there, done that.

I hope you lifted off the inter-cooler to see the oil pooled in the intake manifold galley.



FACT. AN OIL SERERATOR CONNECTED AT THE UPPER PLENUM CAN NOT STOP OIL ENTERING THE THE BACK OF THE INTAKE MANIFOLD GALLEY.

I know, stop shouting. So why not address the oil problem at it's source??? The VACUUM in the intake manifold galley is sucking oil out the passenger side cam cover. Then BOOST pressure is returning the oil back to the PCV valve..... and to the "Y" connection going to the upper plenum.

Some recommended fixes are:

1) Put a seperator on this line if you don't mind wasting boost pressure and empty a collector from time to time.

2) Or conserve boost pressure by completely blocking off the "Y" at the upper plenum.

I'll explain the added benefits of a second PCV valve adapted to fit the driver side cam cover in a later thread.





NoSurprise:

 

Nice Job Jeffs L... however is No Surprise right ? what about the bottom of your intercooler? I think it looks pretty good from on top.. also what is a "Dual Seperator"?? i had 1 on my truck and it still let oil in Man i am watching this and other oil threads like a HAWK trying to stop mine.... I also will be taking everything off when i am good and ready.. > meaning when i have the nerve!

 

NOSURPRISE you seem to know allot about my IC without even being here. You want to come by and show me what I'm not seeing?
Whatever brown or light coloring you see in the pics. is from the first time when I pulled the blower/IC. It was totally saturated then.. There is no film at all on the cooling fins now. Believe me I have checked the IC out throughly. My dual seperator setup is 2 seperators setup inline so that if oil gets by the first it will collect in the second.
Maybe a better solution for those that want to block the top plenum port off is to install a real one way pcv so under boost nothing goes up to the plenum... Just a thought...