You should make that remote set up a write up...Since your using good stuff.

Where are you getting your fittings from ? Haven't seen them in that color yet...natural lol.

 

If you were close, you could make your hoses over here lol. I got into that awhile ago, hoses and cable...just for myself mainly, don't sell anything.

 

The Teflon hose and fittings are from Aeroquip. I pulled everything off a 1998 F150 and then cut the tubing off the "manifolds". Then a machinist friend of mine milled them off flush and bored them to accept 18X1.5 fittings. He actually had to lathe each fitting to accept the o-ring and counter bored a small lip on the manifold to accept the o-ring. He did this as he didn't feel there was enough material around the bored hole to accept a pipe thread fitting without the risk of splitting or cracking the manifold. When I received them back, I spent some time with a Dremel tool and some sanding drums smoothing out the oil passage as the milling left a noticeable step that I felt might impede oil flow. One thing I'm puzzled about is the hole in the front of the "adapter". It is threaded as if to accept a sender, but not drilled to actually intersect with the oil passage. The manifold is threaded and drilled into the oil passage. You can see the "hole" in question in the photograph I posted.

 

It's not drilled through, that's strange. I fortunately do have the factory remote oil filter set up but will have the hoses replaced at a local hydraulic store (rather than buying Dorman) that does them for Fords, Chevys, anyone and made also out of better quality hose to.

 

Right, Aeroquip, EATON and Phenix, I've used in the past, all top quality. Used more for aircraft design and military applications. I was just surprised because color anodizing wasn't used on your parts.

Yea, that empty port is for a alternate sender sensor. No thru hole on those, they do the ciphering much like the CHT sensor (temp of block vs fluid). You don't have the HVAC fluid cooling block, most do w/remotes. Otherwise the coolant block (oil cooler) would ported in such a way that antifreeze coolant flowed thru the block as well... to assist in cooling. A neet little feature that some of our trucks had originally...tow package and stuff.
But yea, there should be another sender port on the back of the block. Set up the same way. Anyway, that's what's up with that empty port front side...unless of course you have it on backwards. I'm not sure that's possible?

Yea, the tough part is clearing frame rail with your fittings. Not tough really, - some forget to consider that lol.

 

BTW fluid stream sensors were completely phased out for the 5fours in 99, except for that one which your referring too. Came standared from 97. No more sender leaks.

The 4sixes weren't phased out until 01..completely anyway.

 

The Aeroquip fittings are stainless steel rather than aluminum. And they are mil-spec rather than standard automotive specifications.

 

Great! Perhaps that's why.

Good Luck!

 

 

Finally got the motor installed, no clearance problems with the fittings at all. Decided to color code the lines to avoid any chance of crossing them up in the future.