Modine Oil Cooler- Source or a Substitute?

I had to replace the same thing on my van and had no problem getting one from Ford. You might wanna look into that to see if it could work. My van is a '98 E350 club wagon with the 6.8l V10 engine w/ the trailer towing option.

jeff is absolutely correct. another thing i'll add is that you want to be careful installing a remote filter and/or cooler. OEM oil pumps are not really designed to move a lot of oil a long distance. if you do go the route of a remote cooler and filter, use at least -10 lines, keep them as short as possible and no 90 degree elbows. try to use straight fittings and gradual bends with the hose. if you have to use a 90 degree fitting, use an AN style radius-ed high flow fitting.

as noted, use a thermostat and be aware that it will take longer for the oil pressure to come up after you start the engine, especially when hot and the thermostat is open. that always bothered me when i ran those on my circle track cars. i never noticed any abnormal bearing wear, but it was bothersome.

I have pored over the responses to my post with much gratitude. Here is what I ended up with;

While the proper terminology of this part may be "oil to coolant heat exchanger", most of the technical parts diagrams I found referred to it as simply "oil cooler" and I believe these were extracted from original Ford diagrams. However, searches turned up mostly external coolers or the adaptor plate used in those remote coolers that replaces the OEM piece.

After a lot of time on the internet I ran across an eBay listing for "oil cooler sandwich". Once I started googling that phrase I had more luck though most of the results had the coolant tubes bent over at various angles. eBay had a lengthy listing of these that ran from $20 for a used one up to $279 for a brand new one. Most of the used ones looked to be in worse or about the same shape as the one I need to replace. I did find a used one from a 1988 Mustang 2.3L turbo that looked to be in pretty good condition, so bought it for $60.

So, bottom line is if you are searching for a used part, the "real" name may not be as useful as what folks actually call it.