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| tornik550 |
 Jul 24 2008, 08:06 PM
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How easy is it to break the lines on the stock oil coolers? The reason I ask is because I have a pretty significant oil leak from the cooler. I had just installed the engine and cooler with new seals. I have checked all of the other normal oil leak locations and they are all ok (sender, plugs...). It clearly is from the cooler. The leak is significant.
I changed the seals a few days ago and the leak is exactly the same as it was. When I installed the cooler when I rebuilt me engine, I wasn't paying attention and put the cooler studs into the fins and not through the correct holes. It went through pretty easily. Is it possible that I broke the cooler from doing this? I find it hard to believe that my seals are bad considering that I just changed them again. |
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| tornik550 |
Jul 25 2008, 07:46 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,248 Joined: 29-January 07 From: Ohio Member No.: 7,486 Region Association: None |
I just pulled the oil cooler and pressure tested it. I used various pressures up to about 50 psi. I did not have any leaks. I have taken that whole area of the engine apart to look for the source. I am not certain but it really looks like it is coming from the cooler seals. I really thought that when I replaced the seals and added rtv that I would at least see an improvement. Considering the large amount of oil that leaks when the engine is on, this makes me believe that it is a seal issue. I will play around tomorrow and see what happens.
The only other area that may be the source is the distributor seals however I would assume that a dist. seal leak would not be such a large amount. |
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tornik550 Potentially very stupid question Jul 24 2008, 08:06 PM
orange914 hate to suggest this but... :stromberg: you may w... Jul 24 2008, 08:15 PM vsg914
When I installed the cooler when I rebuilt me e... Jul 25 2008, 02:52 PM mike_the_man :agree: It sounds to me like there are two bolt ho... Jul 25 2008, 03:16 PM tornik550 I am not quite sure how I did it but I actually di... Jul 25 2008, 04:01 PM mike_the_man The fins on the cooler are pretty thin, so I'm... Jul 25 2008, 04:18 PM ClayPerrine First thing... take the RTV and throw it across th... Jul 26 2008, 09:51 PM
mikez RTV...I just tore down a 2.0/6 with RTV.....it... Jul 26 2008, 10:44 PM |
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