questions about oil cooler - 2.3l 5kq

[Eyvind Spangen]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:23:27 -0300, you wrote:

>Howdy folks. Sprung a leak in oil cooler. Good news is I can get a used
>one for ~75-100 bucks perhaps even including lines. Are they all the
>same for this engine? I'm getting conflicting reports from the dealer
>parts guy (excellent man) who says there are a couple of different ones.
>Bentley only shows one for turbo (which looks just like the one I have)
>but Bentley can be deceiving. If the used part doesn't work out, has
>anyone had trouble bypassing the cooler with a hose. What kind of oil
>pressures are we dealing with here? As most here will know, new parts
>for this are heart stopping, faint, fall to the floor kinda prices.

All oil coolers should be interchangeable.. The fittings on the cooler
may be a little different, but the fittings to the engine are the same
on all. Just get the lines together with the "new" cooler, and you
should be safe. BTW, get the lines rebuilt at a hydraulics store if
they have the smallest amount of seeping. It's not funny when they
fail. (will empty the engine of oil in a matter of seconds!) Removing
the cooler is probably not a good idea either - I guess there's a
reason the factory installed it.

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Regards,
ES