Oil cooler
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Is this reliable and safe to do. Is it just a matter of moving it and fitting the new sandwich plate for the new cooler. Hope this makes sense.
Cheers in advance and regards.
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Local Hero
Or Replacing one style of water jacket cooler for another?
On my 90's Cabbies, VW over here at least did away with the water jacket oil coolers, The Jetta's, Passat's, Golfs still had them but not the Cabby's I am still talking digi controlled. Why not the Cabby?
Since I noticed that my oil would get HOT (automatic) as compared to my Manual tranny in my 92, and 93 I chose to add an external air cooled oil cooler.
Being the Cheap Bastich that I are I opted to Scavage the yards for parts, and ended up with a Whalbro off a Volvo 240t intercooler. It was a direct fit and required a
little modification on the interconnect pipe from my oil filter flange through the sandwich plate to the filter Original was too long and had to be shortened about an inch.
I ran this to a Transmission (lower profile) exchanger in front of my a/c condenser.
I have seen the water jacket one's leak oil into the a/f, and over pressurize the cooling system.
I prefer to have oil leak to the floor, rather than the possibility of cross contamination.
In the archive section I have a how do I do that.
I don't think that swapping from one water jacketed one to another would be a problem save for the hoses.
On 90's that don't have it, I wouldn't add a water jacket one, I would go external air cooled.
The reason I went for the Volvo is that it was Thermostatically controlled to open full at 95C similar to a t-stat.
I went from about 145C oil on highway cruises with a/c to about 110-115.
my 2 pence.
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How did you shorten the main pipe the one which the oil filter screws on?
Did you MOD it or is there models which use one.
Massive thanks for your reply 😁😁😁😁😁
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Ran a nut up to lock it in place Marked the Pipe with Paint. Ran the nut off, took the old shorter one that was original and ran a lock nut up to the mark, rane another up to the guestimation, and lock nutted it, I used a Sawzall to cut below the nuts… Using the nuts as a thread chaser I removed them to the cut area a tad low, locked them together and filed the edges, spun them off and wally it fit.
how I dod it is here:
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And I really appreciate your help 👍.
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But remember I live across the pond so it is all "American" and not metric parts.
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rubjonny said
A low-tech way around it is card in front of the oil cooler rad when you're not using it
That was the Standard how to keep warm in Illinois in the winter in my Bug-Eye, and MG Midget, I would also take the Fan off if it was to be in the teens for over a week or so.
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Thanks again 😁👍.
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