Ron continues helping out from beyond the grave. 500 miles away from home and I needed to change out my radiator (trans cooler leaking) and Ron was able to show me the easy way to get the shroud out without resorting to cutting. Here it is a Sunday, actually New Years Eve Day and the parts store in Flagstaff had a radiator in stock and I was able to get it swapped out. Thanks you again Ron..RIP...hopefully his channel is still paying out to his family.
Ron is still helping out...This guy was an amazing diesel mechanic and will be missed by many! Your knowledge lives on and you will be helping people for many years to come. Rest in peace Ron and thank you once again for your help!
Ron was amazing. So knowledgeable and helpful. His videos so super clear and simple to follow...he always did a terrific job on that. Still helping us 6.0 guys years after his passing. Love to his family for such a wonderful man. Thank you all for keeping his legacy going!
RIP Ron. This video was my lifesaver. I've learned so much from you and you will be missed. But your skills and the way you do things will live on forever. Thank you for everything.
RIP Ron. I've watched he'd so many of his videos I feel like I know him. Lol. His videos have saved me a ton of money and grew my knowledge of the 6.0 diesel to a pretty high understanding.
RIP Ron, Thank you still helping me in 2021 I had to change my 2005 F350 radiator yesterday and got the job done because of this video. Thoughts & Prayers to you're family, Thank you for keeping Ron's videos up!
To God be the glory for such a wonderful man who dedicated his life to educating, equipping and enabling others to do for themselves. Thank you Ron. These videos will be cherished by me forever. You’ve helped so many people. I’m the words of the apostle Paul “ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you”. RIP my dear friend.
Fully agree, Bob. Ron is sorely missed, but his wonderful contributions still help all of us. Need to do this very job, and here is Ron. Soooo grateful for his work.
Had to replace my radiator and like others, I found this video extremely helpful, especially for getting the fan shroud out and back in. Watch it a few times to see how he manipulates it around. While people have done this job in an hour, I drained my system out the petcock to be neat, and that is slow. Got almost 3 gallons out. My truck is a 2004 with the threaded trans cooler lines and they did not want to come loose so more time spent letting PB Blaster soak in. Had to resort to using a flare nut wrench with a pipe extension to get one fitting loose, which worked but I considered it risky. Was sad to learn that Ron had died, although I see he posted a lot of videos and I may need another one in the future. His legacy will live on.
That guy has been pushing up daisies now for 5 years AND HE IS STILL HELPING OUT! I had the entire top tank on my '05 F-350 6.0 start leaking at the crimp. I wasn't going to do this myself and I watched this video. Yeah, I can do that. It is on the truck with Rotella ELC NF in it. Great video! Thanks, Ron.
Awesome, I gotta tackle mine in the morning, mine just exposed to me a small crack in the plastic by the inlet hose. I'm replacing it with the same ole stock radiator, the old one did it's job the past 10 years. Thanks for the video Ron.
I’m one of those people that “never comments” but I just got. 6.0 3 months ago the radiator busted. I literally looked at this video and had it all done and back together in a hour. THANKKKKKKK YOOOUUUU!!!!!
Great video. You make it look very easy. I had some trouble getting the oil lines off. I purchased the plastic removal tool and of course it broke once I got to the second line, but I just unscrewed the fitting from the radiator. I replaced my ford radiator with an all aluminum one from eBay and saved a ton a money by doing the repair myself thanks to your instructions.
Ron, you are awesome. Over the past two years, your videos have kept me from driving my 2003 6.0 off a cliff or, in the alternative, it bankrupting me. Great that you showed both types of trans oil cooler lines because that is what I need to replace on mine. They are all rusted out up front. Sadly, the rust is so bad that the nuts that screw into the radiator are pretty much gone without me even trying to put a wrench on them. Guessing I am going to have to go with heat and vise grips, along with a prayer. Watched your video 20 times on how to replace the EGR cooler to oil cooler blue hose and got it done. Of course, it only took me about 3 hours to accomplish the task and I had a torx wrench that made it simple. Hard part for me was getting the metal case off.
Thanks once again Ron. Your videos will be helping people for decades to come I'm sure. As long as there are 6.0s to be fixed people will be finding your videos and be thankful for them. My radiator failed last night and I punched it in on UA-cam and bam yours was the first to come up, hell yeah🤘🤘
I echo what others have said about your videos. Just today I tackled this job in my truck and thanks to your instruction, it took a fraction of the time it would have for me. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the backyard mechanic. Prayers to your family.
Thank you once again Mr Ron and your family for keeping this going with your skill and knowledge so we can keep our trucks on the road there hasn’t been one like you sense 👍 RIP
Much appreciate Ron Whatva great teacher and of course amazing mechanic His calm professional approach gives confidence to men working hard to take care of family and life
I’m about to replace my oem with a Mishimoto, in the video from Mishimoto they remove the intercooler and core support beam, in Rons video he does not. Did you have to remove your intercooler or anything like that to swap in the Mishimoto?
This video is immensely helpful. I will say, moving the battery cable out of the way to give clearance did not allow my radiator to move out of the way at all, it was very stiff. I ended up lifting it about an inch out of place and then I could just pry the shroud out. Without this video, I probably would’ve just gotten frustrated and cut it out lol.
Thanks, the video was very useful to me when I had to replace the serpentine belt tensioner on a 2004 F450 6.0. Apparently the Ford procedure is to remove the rad in order to access the tensioner but it was easy enough to do after removing just the fan shroud. The video showed me how to remove the fan shroud. I did a lot of searching on the internet to find out about accessing the tensioner and this video was the only one that helped.
Ron your a natural, you keep flowing swiftly when you work, its nice working on the same stuff because you get so good at it, looks like you could do it blind folded if u wanted
RON R.I.P., I know I you can't hear me now but watching your video now using it to remove my 6.0 radiator you help a lot of people. 5/11/2019@11:44 am in Oakland CA. Thank you RON.
Mike Badua I’ve done a ton of these at east bay ford trucks in Oakland unfortunately it’s not around anymore I dont think I knew Ron but it seems like you did.... do you know where he was from or where he worked
Sure do.miss Ron. His videos have helped.me.so much and saved me lots of money. I wish I could have met him just once. Fantastic.me hNic and exained.thjs so well. Gonna miss ya.
Fiesta Ford in So Cal. Radiator do not like drastic pressure changes or temperature changes. Egr coolers fail from restricted oil coolers or being low on coolant. Head gaskets fail from a poor design (I wrote that to keep the flames down) and from mods and heat. Radiators fail from spikes if heat or pressures. The coolant bottle is the main leaks I find .
Great video. The only thing I would change is when reinstalling the radiator and shroud would be to put them together. They slide in much easier and less change of damaging the radiator fins. Thanks!
Great video, saved me lots of time but you should mention that the quick disconnect tool needed for the cooler lines is specific for Ford & can only be bought from tool trucks.
You Tube should pay you for posting you vids, you are awesome and I have saved a ton of money fixing my 2006 f250 - new head gasket's, injectors, and now radiator. but I have to say love the truck and think I may be done for awhile . ;-)
Changed my radiator last night thanks to your great video. I also had brownish/reddish fluid in the bottom of my radiator (like the one you change shows dripping on your arms). Being that Ford's coolant is bright yellow, is this a sign of a failing/leaking oil cooler? Thanks for all your great videos! Most helpful!
Ron continues helping out from beyond the grave. 500 miles away from home and I needed to change out my radiator (trans cooler leaking) and Ron was able to show me the easy way to get the shroud out without resorting to cutting. Here it is a Sunday, actually New Years Eve Day and the parts store in Flagstaff had a radiator in stock and I was able to get it swapped out. Thanks you again Ron..RIP...hopefully his channel is still paying out to his family.
Ron is still helping out...This guy was an amazing diesel mechanic and will be missed by many! Your knowledge lives on and you will be helping people for many years to come. Rest in peace Ron and thank you once again for your help!
I followed this today and was done in 1.5 hrs! Ron is a legend!
@@dougheyer9994 You can't go wrong with Rons videos and advice, This guy was the best diesel mechanic around!
March 2024 and still helping me fix my truck. Thank you Ron. RIP.
Ron was amazing. So knowledgeable and helpful. His videos so super clear and simple to follow...he always did a terrific job on that. Still helping us 6.0 guys years after his passing. Love to his family for such a wonderful man. Thank you all for keeping his legacy going!
RIP Ron. This video was my lifesaver. I've learned so much from you and you will be missed. But your skills and the way you do things will live on forever. Thank you for everything.
RIP Ron. I've watched he'd so many of his videos I feel like I know him. Lol. His videos have saved me a ton of money and grew my knowledge of the 6.0 diesel to a pretty high understanding.
RIP Ron, Thank you still helping me in 2021 I had to change my 2005 F350 radiator yesterday and got the job done because of this video. Thoughts & Prayers to you're family, Thank you for keeping Ron's videos up!
What tool did you use for the metal lines on the bottom of the radiator
@@eligood4557 I used a FlairNut wrench on mine a line wrench will work too.
About to do my radiator on my 6.0 in 2023 and Ron's video is still the best
This is the best how to video I’ve ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you for a straight to the point no bullsh*t video.
To God be the glory for such a wonderful man who dedicated his life to educating, equipping and enabling others to do for themselves. Thank you Ron. These videos will be cherished by me forever. You’ve helped so many people. I’m the words of the apostle Paul “ I thank my God upon every remembrance of you”.
RIP my dear friend.
Ron replaced my radiator today. Thanks for all your videos. Thanks for all the great help. You will be missed. Rest In Peace.
Fully agree, Bob. Ron is sorely missed, but his wonderful contributions still help all of us. Need to do this very job, and here is Ron. Soooo grateful for his work.
Ron - 6 years later and this video was a huge help! Thanks for doing this. (Added) Oh crap I didn’t realize. RIP buddy. Thanks for the help
I wanted to thank you for the helpful video, im saddened to see RIP comments... throw a wrench up in the big sky my good man
Had to replace my radiator and like others, I found this video extremely helpful, especially for getting the fan shroud out and back in. Watch it a few times to see how he manipulates it around. While people have done this job in an hour, I drained my system out the petcock to be neat, and that is slow. Got almost 3 gallons out. My truck is a 2004 with the threaded trans cooler lines and they did not want to come loose so more time spent letting PB Blaster soak in. Had to resort to using a flare nut wrench with a pipe extension to get one fitting loose, which worked but I considered it risky. Was sad to learn that Ron had died, although I see he posted a lot of videos and I may need another one in the future. His legacy will live on.
Rip man. A hero to mechanics and DIYers.
No gloves and a chemical bath, a real mechanic! working on an 06 now. Thanks for the video!
That guy has been pushing up daisies now for 5 years AND HE IS STILL HELPING OUT! I had the entire top tank on my '05 F-350 6.0 start leaking at the crimp. I wasn't going to do this myself and I watched this video. Yeah, I can do that. It is on the truck with Rotella ELC NF in it. Great video! Thanks, Ron.
Thankx Again Ron !! R.I.P!! Youll be helping people for many years and me over n over !!!!
RIP Ron. Again you assisted with one little tip about the battery cable and made a world of difference.
Thank you so much Diesel Tech Ron, RIP. May God continue to watch over you and your family.
Awesome, I gotta tackle mine in the morning, mine just exposed to me a small crack in the plastic by the inlet hose. I'm replacing it with the same ole stock radiator, the old one did it's job the past 10 years. Thanks for the video Ron.
I’m one of those people that “never comments” but I just got. 6.0 3 months ago the radiator busted. I literally looked at this video and had it all done and back together in a hour. THANKKKKKKK YOOOUUUU!!!!!
Ron makes it look so easy. I'm changing my rad today. Thanks for the help, Ron.
Thanks Ron for taking your time to show us all of the things you did. You’ve helped me numerous times over the years with my truck!
Great video. You make it look very easy. I had some trouble getting the oil lines off. I purchased the plastic removal tool and of course it broke once I got to the second line, but I just unscrewed the fitting from the radiator. I replaced my ford radiator with an all aluminum one from eBay and saved a ton a money by doing the repair myself thanks to your instructions.
These videos are still helping to this day, this one helped me very much. Thank you and rest in peace Ron.
God Bless The Memory of Ron Huxell !!... 🙏
You continue to help us, and we are truly grateful. ❤
Ron, you are awesome. Over the past two years, your videos have kept me from driving my 2003 6.0 off a cliff or, in the alternative, it bankrupting me. Great that you showed both types of trans oil cooler lines because that is what I need to replace on mine. They are all rusted out up front. Sadly, the rust is so bad that the nuts that screw into the radiator are pretty much gone without me even trying to put a wrench on them. Guessing I am going to have to go with heat and vise grips, along with a prayer. Watched your video 20 times on how to replace the EGR cooler to oil cooler blue hose and got it done. Of course, it only took me about 3 hours to accomplish the task and I had a torx wrench that made it simple. Hard part for me was getting the metal case off.
Thanks once again Ron. Your videos will be helping people for decades to come I'm sure. As long as there are 6.0s to be fixed people will be finding your videos and be thankful for them. My radiator failed last night and I punched it in on UA-cam and bam yours was the first to come up, hell yeah🤘🤘
@eligood4557
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What tool did you use for the metal lines on the bottom of the radiator
RIP Ron, thank you for all your help!
I echo what others have said about your videos. Just today I tackled this job in my truck and thanks to your instruction, it took a fraction of the time it would have for me.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the backyard mechanic. Prayers to your family.
RIP Ron, you are truely one of the best teachers I ever had!
Still watching Ron’s videos! There are very helpful. Wish he was still with us.
Ron! Still using your videos. Swapping my radiator out today. I’ve watched your videos for years thanks for passing on your knowledge !
Thank you once again Mr Ron and your family for keeping this going with your skill and knowledge so we can keep our trucks on the road there hasn’t been one like you sense 👍 RIP
Ron Rest in Peace you helped a lot of people with your knowledge
True professional right here. Gone too soon. Looks like I'm going to tackle this on my '03 6.0. Thanks Ron for the video.
Much appreciate Ron
Whatva great teacher and of course amazing mechanic
His calm professional approach gives confidence to men working hard to take care of family and life
Such a pro! This helped me so much. RIP Ron.
Thank you so much for posting this. I just replaced mine with a mishimoto radiator and your video saved me a lot of time. Thank you
I’m about to replace my oem with a Mishimoto, in the video from Mishimoto they remove the intercooler and core support beam, in Rons video he does not. Did you have to remove your intercooler or anything like that to swap in the Mishimoto?
Bless this man for countless times his videos helped me.
RIP Ron. You were the best...
Still helping. RON, we all thank you! RIP BROTHER!
This video is immensely helpful. I will say, moving the battery cable out of the way to give clearance did not allow my radiator to move out of the way at all, it was very stiff. I ended up lifting it about an inch out of place and then I could just pry the shroud out. Without this video, I probably would’ve just gotten frustrated and cut it out lol.
RIP! Thank you for your hard work and this video. Helped me do the job in 30 minutes.
Thanks, the video was very useful to me when I had to replace the serpentine belt tensioner on a 2004 F450 6.0. Apparently the Ford procedure is to remove the rad in order to access the tensioner but it was easy enough to do after removing just the fan shroud. The video showed me how to remove the fan shroud. I did a lot of searching on the internet to find out about accessing the tensioner and this video was the only one that helped.
Ron your a natural, you keep flowing swiftly when you work, its nice working on the same stuff because you get so good at it, looks like you could do it blind folded if u wanted
He made it look easy pure talent right there
Great video. Thank you. And remembering him fondly.
God rest your soul Ron. You are the MASTER diesel tech.
Thank you very much for your time in making and posting this even years later it is still helping
Your still helping us out. R.I.P. Ron
He passed?
Dam Ron wish you were still around your the best there ever was
may not of had my 6.0 when you were here but I'm glad you left behind your knowledge rip freind
Gone but not forgotten and still doing good things for others.
I watched 30 seconds and paused to go buy that ratchet off eBay. Great videos.
Ron helping a brother out. ❤
RON R.I.P., I know I you can't hear me now but watching your video now using it to remove my 6.0 radiator you help a lot of people. 5/11/2019@11:44 am in Oakland CA. Thank you RON.
Mike Badua I’ve done a ton of these at east bay ford trucks in Oakland unfortunately it’s not around anymore I dont think I knew Ron but it seems like you did.... do you know where he was from or where he worked
@@karlbrooksmotorsports4892
No bro, I do not know him at all.
very cool watching a master of his trade at work
Sure do.miss Ron. His videos have helped.me.so much and saved me lots of money. I wish I could have met him just once. Fantastic.me hNic and exained.thjs so well. Gonna miss ya.
its amazing what you can figure out when you work on them often eh? man i cant wait to use that fan shroud trick
Thank you sir! You r still teaching us from up about! RIP sir
Fiesta Ford in So Cal. Radiator do not like drastic pressure changes or temperature changes. Egr coolers fail from restricted oil coolers or being low on coolant. Head gaskets fail from a poor design (I wrote that to keep the flames down) and from mods and heat. Radiators fail from spikes if heat or pressures. The coolant bottle is the main leaks I find .
Man I MISS this guy ): Hope the family is doing well.
That was just the trick to get the fan shroud out. Thank you!
Ron you make everything look easy ! RIP miss your video s
RIP sir thank you for your service.
Great video. The only thing I would change is when reinstalling the radiator and shroud would be to put them together. They slide in much easier and less change of damaging the radiator fins. Thanks!
You made that look super easy! Great video
RIP Diesel Tech Ron. Respect!
Thanks Ron for helping me in 2020, R.I.P
Damn, No way. This guys a pro! old vid but valuable knowledge!
Still seeing his videos 🙂when searching what to do on my 6.0
Just changed my radiator following the video and was pretty easy. Only had trouble trying to remove one oil cooler adapter so just left it on.
I think senior master tech has a video on it too. he works for ford. thanks again for awesome vids
He was amazing. Rest in peace
Great video, saved me lots of time but you should mention that the quick disconnect tool needed for the cooler lines is specific for Ford & can only be bought from tool trucks.
Thanks you Ron once again, rip brother.
Thank u for making this it helped me allot on a job I am currently doing the fan shroud wouldn't move but ur tips helped me
WOW that was easy. Got a quote for 720 buks. Radiator costs 202. You just saved me 500 buks. THANK YOU!!!
6.0 radiators on Ebay starting at $105.00 going up to whatever you want to pay.
laokram is mishimoto the best one for the 6.0? which one did you get ?
i think so buddy of mine has one and his at full operating tempature barely goes above the c mark on the dash
This video and ones like it are what UA-cam are made for!
Thanks so much for showing this, it’s helping me out right now, you’re awesome!!!
Thank you once more, and for all the other countless times!
Great quick little video!
wise Ron. one more year with out your master mind. merry charismas! 2021 any were you are.
thanks a million Boss man. you saved my life.
God bless You Ron thanks For alls vídeos 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Nice vid. You make it look super easy.
This guy was as cool as the other side of the pillow. I'm about to swap my radiator and now I'm ready.
Ron you are the man! Great video, you make it look easy sir!
WHAT WAS TO ROOT CAUSE OF THE RADIATOR FAILURE? BLOWN HEAD GASKETS? EGR COOLER?
You Tube should pay you for posting you vids, you are awesome and I have saved a ton of money fixing my 2006 f250 - new head gasket's, injectors, and now radiator. but I have to say love the truck and think I may be done for awhile . ;-)
This guy knew his stuff. Hated to hear he passed away.
Thanks man, great video!
Awesome ! , I wished I would of found this video long ago !
We love you Ron
:o OMG..... !!! I've been doing it all wrong! Thank you for sharing. Know this is older vid but still good.
Still running your FICM Ron! Enjoy your mansion the Lord promised you!!
Awesome video! Thanks Ron on all your videos.
Changed my radiator last night thanks to your great video. I also had brownish/reddish fluid in the bottom of my radiator (like the one you change shows dripping on your arms). Being that Ford's coolant is bright yellow, is this a sign of a failing/leaking oil cooler? Thanks for all your great videos! Most helpful!