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I confirmed it is my oil cooler, but the dealership is recommending replacing all the hoses which is about $1500 in labor rather than just flushing what is everyone’s opinion on flushing the system and cleaning the hoses with degreaser and reinstalling the hoses rather than replacing all of them?

It’s all good understand just trying help help. All appreciated 🙏

Looked into this and someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think only way is to remove oil cooler itself and test it by plugging and pressurizing apart from motor. Will surely ask dealer tomorrow when drop off

Is there a way to test if it’s the oil cooler?

That doesn’t confirm that there is without a doubt oil in my coolant? So either oil cooler failure or blown head gasket. Most likely cooler

Pulled my coolant cap and to absolute sadness this is what the coolant under the cap looks like 😢

I was hoping you guys were all correct and it’s just this mysterious muck but I popped the radiator cap and I’m not feeling so confident anymore this isn’t worst case scenario. If this doesn’t look like coolant mixed with oil… then I’d be flabbergasted. Again I didn’t personally get to see the...

Taking it for pressure testing just in case.

Has anyone on this thread ever noticed their coolant dipstick to be crudded up like this? Went for oil change and technician was worried this could be oil which obviously not good. Stated oil change was not milky though. But my dipstick shows no coolant. P.s. this was after I wiped most of the...

There was a considerable amount more that I regrettably wiped off. I caught myself and stoped before clean all the way. So that’s about 10% of what I originally witness on that dipstick.

So have a 22 5.7 with 63,000 miles, bought it with 55,000 miles Take it in for my first oil change owning the truck and find possible oil on coolant dip stick. Reservoir below the minimum to the point almost dry, but half way up the stick is a brownish crud built up on the stick. I ask...