Crazy idea
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Crazy idea
I've just been sitting here reading through the forum, and it seems like almost everyone here has had to fix their oil cooler on their truck, so it got me thinking as to how could we get rid of that annoying leaky oil cooler and never have to fix it again, and I think I know how!
How hard would it be to make an "oil cooler relocator" ????
I was thinking make something a lot like a trans oil cooler that mounts in front of the rad and is cooled by air and not the engine coolant.
If you think of it, it doesn't sound that hard, just get an engine oil cooler......
Then get an oil filter mount.......
And hook the two together, the hardest thing would be how to hook it to the engine block, I was thinking along the lines of having something milled out of aluminum that had pipe fittings and you would just put those where the old oil cooler hooked to the engine block at.
I don't know if any of this really makes since or not to anyone but I thought it was a cool idea and would be worth a shot at getting rid of our leaky oil coolers.
How hard would it be to make an "oil cooler relocator" ????
I was thinking make something a lot like a trans oil cooler that mounts in front of the rad and is cooled by air and not the engine coolant.
If you think of it, it doesn't sound that hard, just get an engine oil cooler......
Then get an oil filter mount.......
And hook the two together, the hardest thing would be how to hook it to the engine block, I was thinking along the lines of having something milled out of aluminum that had pipe fittings and you would just put those where the old oil cooler hooked to the engine block at.
I don't know if any of this really makes since or not to anyone but I thought it was a cool idea and would be worth a shot at getting rid of our leaky oil coolers.
Cargo Master
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From: Duluth, Mn.
You machine the headers, and You've got Yourself a deal.
If You've ever had an oil cooler off, You'd see that You can't jsut thread something into the square holes.
And You NEED the rear header for the oil pressure relief/oil filter.
Plenty of peeps have brought this subject up. But NONE have gone to the expense of machining anything.
Why? Because it's pretty simple, and relatively cheap to just rebuild what they've got, every 100K+ miles.
If You've ever had an oil cooler off, You'd see that You can't jsut thread something into the square holes.
And You NEED the rear header for the oil pressure relief/oil filter.
Plenty of peeps have brought this subject up. But NONE have gone to the expense of machining anything.
Why? Because it's pretty simple, and relatively cheap to just rebuild what they've got, every 100K+ miles.
Posting Guru
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From: Las vegas
The theory is not good the reason they use a coolant type heat exchanger and not a air type is that the coolant type is more eficiant it would take a cooler the size of the radiator to do the same as the stock cooler also it would take one helluva fan to keep it working while the vehicle is stoped.
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From: Elk City, OK
factory cooler does 2 things, cools oil when it gets hot, but it also warms the oil when you start up. start your engine, oil is thick.... the water in the block gets warm and thins the oil to a better flow rate. but the remote cooler is an idea. you'd have to run a block on the front and rear. out let for water and for oil in the front, inlet in the rear. so you'd have to have a straight hose for the water then the bypass hoses for the oil cooler. think its more trouble then its worth. its not that hard to do your oil cooler, and they last a long time between needing new 0 rings.
