RAM 3500 HD Truck 2WD L6-6.7L DSL Turbo VIN A (2007)
Oil Line: Removal and Replacement
Removal
REMOVAL - OIL COOLER
1. Disconnect Negative battery cables.
2. Drain Coolant.
3. Disconnect Ambient Air and MAF Sensors on Air Filter housing.
4. Loosen hose clamp at Turbocharger Inlet.
5. Move clamp on Engine Breather hose at Inlet elbow at turbocharger and remove hose.
6. Remove Air Filter housing cover and inlet hose and set aside.
7. Remove upper generator bolt, loosen lower generator bolt, and rotate generator away from cylinder head.
8. Loosen the three clamps and hoses from the Coolant outlet tube.
9. Loosen and remove the bracket attachment nut from Coolant tube (10 mm).
10. Remove Coolant outlet tube.
11. Loosen turbocharger oil supply hose from oil cooler housing.
12. Remove oil filter.
13. Loosen and remove the 14 oil cooler attachment capscrews (10 mm).
14. Remove oil cooler housing and oil cooler from engine block.
Installation
INSTALLATION
1. Clean block surface, oil cooler, and oil cooler housing of debris, dirt and remaining gasket material
2. Using new gaskets install oil cooler, oil cooler housing to cylinder block.
NOTE: Depending on the revision of oil cooler, mounting gaskets will differ. Make sure the gaskets line up with the oil cooler element and
housing correctly. Failure to use correct gaskets will result in severe engine damage.
3. Tighten mounting capscrews in a criss-cross pattern. Torque to 24 Nm (18 ft-lb)
4. Install Coolant outlet tube into place and secure tube bracket to cooler mounting stud. Tighten nut to 24 Nm (18 ft-lb)
5. Connect tube to hoses and secure with hose clamps
6. Swing generator into place and torque through bolts to specs.
7. Install Air Inlet hose to turbocharger and place Air Filter housing lid into place
8. Tighten hose clamp at Turbocharger to specs.
9. Install Crank Case Breather hose to Inlet elbow and place hose clamp in place.
10. Connect Ambient Air and MAP sensors.
11. Fill Engine with coolant.
12. Connect battery cables.
13. Start engine and check for leaks.
