cleaning your 6.0 intake

[dieseldan2005]

Seeing as this seems to be a must according to some people when doing an egr delete. I am looking for a way to do it either by my self at home or having a shop do it while i wait. I found this kit and i want to know if anyone else has tried it or has any other methods of cleaning the intake WITHOUT taking it to a machine shop for a hot dip or whatever it is. This is for the guys who use their trucks as daily drivers and CAN'T afford to be without them for more than a weekend.

TechTip: Ford 6.0 Diesel EGR System Cleaning - - Hot Auto Products

6.0 BG Intake cleaning - New England Turbo Diesel Power

[purplehorn1977]

when i did mine i plugged all the holes filled with straight castrol super clean and let it sit a couple hours then took the garden hose to it and flushed it out real good. look just as good inside as the outside did. cost me like 15 bucks for the superclean. plus after draining it out of the intake i just put it in a bucket and let it sit for a few days and most of the deposits came out. ive been using it to clean the concrete at the house ever since.

[dieseldan2005]

See this is what i was looking for. Thanks for the input. The only thing that scares me a little is hot getting all the chunks out and having one come loose and do some type of damage. How hard was it to get the intake out? The egr delete kit i have says that only partial removal is required, so what else is in the way if anything?

[purplehorn1977]

not sure on the 03's mine is an 04 but i think the intake is a little diffrent on the 03's they had a crosover tube in the back that connected the 2 runners together. I made my own delete kit for the egr. but youll want to get a turbo mounting kit. remove the alternator, remove charge air pipes, remove turbo, remove the fuel lines from fuel filter housing. remove oil filter cap and filter remove the 4or 5 bolts holding the filter housing on the oil filter stem. remove the intake bolts and slide it out. under the wire harness. dont forget to disconnect the ground wire on the left rearmost intake bolt. and dont forget to hook it back up. it only took me like 5-6 hours to do the delete on mine and i had to make everything.

[dieseldan2005]

Good to know. I did buy the turbo kit. Luckly i stumbled across it, no one ever said to get it when doing the delete. Any other gaskets for the oil filter housing a guy should get? i have a minor oil leak up there somewhere that i hope to find when doing this.

[purplehorn1977]

something else you may consider since your going to be in that far if your truck has any kind of milage on it is an oil cooler kit. thats about all i can think of. the intake gaskets are reusable. you can get the orings for the fuel lines but i reused almost all of the old stuff when i did mine and never had a problem. If you decide to do an oil cooler get the oil screen also that goes in the galley. this is also a good time to do an oil change as you can drain almost 90 percent of the oil. after doing that and cleaning the oil galley i can run almost 3000 miles before the oil looks noticably darker. i still change it at 5000 but its no were near as black as it used to be.

[dieseldan2005]

I just bought this 03 and 1yr ago the previous owner put in a new egr valve,cooler, oil cooler and 4 new injectors. So thank goodness the oil cooler is new. There is probably only 3-4k on miles since those repairs.

[mdfirefighter]

I just had my intake out of the truck and I had a large storage container and filled it with ~5 gallons of power purple. Let it sit 24-28 hours, then hosed it out with water. Did a fairly good job, got lots of chunks out. Then I did it again just to be sure. There is some some stuff left in there, but it was cheap, quick, and easy.

[purplehorn1977]

yep you should be good to go then as long as your not seeing any issues, i tell you deleting the egr system on these engines is the best thing in the world for them. makes them so much happier of course not having to suck on your own exhaust makes everyone happier. lol. good luck if you need any help you can pm me if needed.

[dieseldan2005]

I appreciate it bud! I see your not too far away from me up here in MN. The whole egr thing is a joke. Like you said it would suck to breath in your own farts all day with no window to roll down.