Replacing the upper engine oil pan on a 6.7L Powerstroke? This is something you NEED to check before you do! A brand-new oil pan direct from Ford destroyed this customer's engine. After investigating, we discovered that there is a manufacturing defect in this pan that caused the engine to not get oil.
The video above covers the issue in more detail, but here is the summary of the issue:
What the service tech here at ZZ Diesel found was a defect in the tube that flows oil from the low pressure oil pump to the oil cooler. Due to an issue in either the casting or a machining process, the tube does not reach down to the oil cooler. We measured the length of this channel on a normal pan, and it measured roughly 23", while the one in this pan only measured 14".
(Stock oil pan tube measured about 23" deep)
(Defective pan only measured 14" deep, completely blocking the flow of oil)
This is a major issue that ultimately destroyed this engine. There is no information on how many pans are affected by this issue, and there could be many more in circulation. As soon as we discovered this, we wanted to make sure to get the word out to prevent his happening from anyone else. This would not be something that you normally would have to check when installing a new upper oil pan. We have been working with Ford for years and have never seen anything like this.
At the time of writing this article, Ford is about 5 weeks out on new engines
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