I thought you had to pull the whole cab to do a 6.7 Powerstroke oil cooler

For years, I'd always lift the cab on any 2011 or newer F-250 that needed that job. It's what the book says, and it's how I was taught. Then a guy at a shop in Boise showed me you can drop the front axle and get enough room from underneath. Took me 8 hours the first time I tried it his way, but I saved the customer over $500 in extra labor. Anyone else skip the cab lift on these now?

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palmer.henry2h ago

Eight hours is a long time under the truck. Was that mostly fighting the axle or getting the cooler itself out once you had the room? I've heard the axle drop trick but always worried about alignment issues after. Did you have to mess with the track bar or steering linkage at all, or does it just hang enough once the bolts are out?

anthony1271h ago

Oh man, the axle drop was the easy part! It just hangs on the shocks and brake lines, no alignment mess. The real fight was wrestling that old cooler out of the frame rails.