How to: Fit an Oil Cooler

Also if your going to put on an oil cooler, you might give some thought to putting in an oil thermostat. Original oil coolers were fitted for export to very hot countries. Now here if say on a cold day the oil is still being cooled all the time it will drop below operating temperature and form a sludge, which will in no time bugger up the engine. So You need a thermostat to stop the oil circulating if its not over heated.
Something like this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOCAL-OT-1-1- ... 2338b0e63c
 
For anybody interested in replicating this without the original hoses to measure, both of the long hoses need to be 25" long with an internal diameter of 3/4" (19mm exactly, give or take). Outside diameter is irrelevant.
I ordered 3m but got almost 4m so have about 1.5m left over. If anybody wants to make up replacement short hoses, feel free to take it off my hands.

Has anybody took the excess hose off your hands yet and if not will you be willing to post.
At my cost obviously.
 
Demetris said:
Vern,
the pressures are low as you say, and for the time being (=new) they hold enough as Michael says.
However, i don't know what will happen after a few heat cycles, and in an already high maintenance car (with modern criteria...), that is used almost day in day out, i wouldn't add the periodic tightening of hose clamps / jubille clips of the lubrication system. Simply these were not specified for this use, so they must not be adequate.
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Not disagreeing, but you'll see this sort of thing all the time in industrial applications from new. Hose clamp at a buck vs a one shot crimp at a couple of bucks vs a reusable fitting at six bucks is the calculation I suspect.

Yours
Vern
 
How about this type as this is what I was thinking when I do mine.
We use the smaller versions on air lines at work and there around 100psi
 

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stue1972 said:
How about this type as this is what I was thinking when I do mine.
We use the smaller versions on air lines at work and there around 100psi
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Those are oetikers Very effective clamps as long as they are installed properly (both ears get crimped but they shouldn't touch, which allows the clamp to have some spring to it

Yours
Vern
 
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