6.7 Twin Turbo Setup

Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

jcain said:
How do y'all keep your coolant temps up? It's only in the +teens here and the truck won't stay above 150* at idle after being up to temp.

Card board (beer box) over the radiator.

Yeah I am in central bc and we had no rain for a good 3 months this summer. Than it rained for month and half this fall. Winter wise the temps have been 5-10* warmer then say 10yrs ago.

taterthedog · Nov 16, 2014

Jesse_01 said:
Card board (beer box) over the radiator.

I cooked a head gasket on a 91 escort I had like that. Heat problem turned out to be a plugged heater core. New head gasket with headbolts was about $23 from Ford. Pretty cheap I thought. Some guys here used to remove the engine fan for winter, just don't leave it idling long. I don't even use a winter front. Just drive it and it'll make heat.

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Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

taterthedog said:
I cooked a head gasket on a 91 escort I had like that. Heat problem turned out to be a plugged heater core. New head gasket with headbolts was about $23 from Ford. Pretty cheap I thought. Some guys here used to remove the engine fan for winter, just don't leave it idling long. I don't even use a winter front. Just drive it and it'll make heat.

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-40 and your truck won't warm up even with driving. Take an easy 30 mins for it to even blow warm air.

I usually keep my card board in from +5 and lower.

Morgan@Midwest Diesel & Auto · Nov 16, 2014

Cardboard or winter front is the only way on these trucks. Their cooling system is so large that it also works the opposite in cold weather.

WHY NOT · Nov 16, 2014

Morgan@Midwest Diesel & Auto said:
Cardboard or winter front is the only way on these trucks. Their cooling system is so large that it also works the opposite in cold weather.

I need to get a winter front for my truck. Does anyone have any good options. I was thinking about going to a junk yard to find a grille off a wrecked truck, black or chrome doesn't really matter to me and using one of those snap on ones. That way I can just change out the whole grille instead of putting snaps on my KR grille

Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

WHY NOT said:
I need to get a winter front for my truck. Does anyone have any good options. I was thinking about going to a junk yard to find a grille off a wrecked truck, black or chrome doesn't really matter to me and using one of those snap on ones. That way I can just change out the whole grille instead of putting snaps on my KR grille

Save your money and go car board. You can stick it between the two radiators not even notice its in there. Do you get much salt & sand on the roads there? That stuff does a number on factory chrome grills.

WHY NOT · Nov 16, 2014

I normally just do that with a seed sign since they are like water proof cardboard

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Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

WHY NOT said:
I normally just do that with a seed sign since they are like water proof cardboard

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Our speed signs are aluminum, it would rub through the rad.

WHY NOT · Nov 16, 2014

Seed not speed. Like what you see adversing along the road to show what kind of corn is out in the field.

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dsberman94 · Nov 16, 2014

Election signage, or a stupid whatever on the side of the road to advertise something from a nearby company. Or like he said shows what's in the field. I ended up grabbing some election signage out of my neighbors yard this year to get something done for if we ever get single digits this year.

Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

WHY NOT said:
Seed not speed. Like what you see adversing along the road to show what kind of corn is out in the field.

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Haha I can't read apparently.

taterthedog · Nov 16, 2014

Jesse_01 said:
-40 and your truck won't warm up even with driving. Take an easy 30 mins for it to even blow warm air.

I usually keep my card board in from +5 and lower.

I know all about -40. We had 6 weeks of -30 to -40 last winter. It was fine for heat with nothing. 15-20 minutes idling then drive, blowing heat in 10 minutes or so of easy driving. Don't have any experience with a 6.7, but my 7.3 and 6.4 have both been the same. I know this thread is a 6.7 one, I apologize if it seemed I was talking about 6.7s.

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Jesse_01 · Nov 16, 2014

taterthedog said:
I know all about -40. We had 6 weeks of -30 to -40 last winter. It was fine for heat with nothing. 15-20 minutes idling then drive, blowing heat in 10 minutes or so of easy driving. Don't have any experience with a 6.7, but my 7.3 and 6.4 have both been the same. I know this thread is a 6.7 one, I apologize if it seemed I was talking about 6.7s.

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With my job I am in an out of my truck all day. So it stays running all day long and I like it warm when I hop in. Thats when the car board comes in.

taterthedog · Nov 16, 2014

Jesse_01 said:
With my job I am in an out of my truck all day. So it stays running all day long and I like it warm when I hop in. Thats when the car board comes in.

Gotcha. Just be sure to leave some airflow. Not like I did on my escort. Lol.

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