Burst oil cooler

[edhorne]

Oil everywhere!!

I couldn't understand it, where was it all coming from? Anyway, turns out the oil cooler has burst. I have bypassed it with a piece of 5/8" tube and jubilee clips.

For reference purposes the inside diamater is 5/8" on my 1996 4.2

Cutting the pipe was very difficult as the reinforcing is very tough. Just replacing the cooler itself was a non-starter as the steel hose fittings had welded themselves to the alloy cooler threads.

I am hoping that, as I do not intend to do any track days in the near future, the current climate will not affect the engine adversely.

I must say that the engine warms up much quicker, which can only be a good thing.

I intend to get some new pipes made up with an oil thermostat plumbed in aswell.

Will take some pictures when its done.

Cheers

Ed

[Cyclone1]

Other option is to purchase another oil cooler and install it inside the engine bay as opposed to where the current cooler sits behind the Rad in the nose of the car. The old cooler can be removed (although it's time consuming) or can just be left in situ. Joolz at Track Car Solution did this with mine, might be worth giving him a buzz and it wasn't too expensive.

Jules.

[edhorne]

Cyclone1

Whereabouts is it mounted? I noticed you'd had that done on a different thread. Any chance of a picture. It sounds like a good solution to save the knuckles from being scraped again!

Cheers

Ed

[trackcar]

ed .. it's just mounted above the steering rack under that panel in front of the engine .. you can duct cold air to it if youre bothered on track days by high oil temps, but most of the time the oil on a cerb runs waaaaay to cold so you'll not do any damage anyway .. they hold a lot of oil and have a finned alloy sump so much better start that most engines anyway.