questions about oil cooler - 2.3l 5kq

[Tom]

Funny you should mention.. My 5k purged most of its oil while exiting the
parts store parking lot at lunch today - rather quickly too I might add. I
was wondering why it became so easy to lock up the right front wheel all of
the sudden, then the red beacon of death started flashing accompanied by an
oil pressure gauge quickly trending towards zero.. Quick u-turn, killed the
ignition and rolled into a parking spot. Turns out the oil line popped off
at the fitting but I might have a spare in the trunk somewhere with the
other "leftover" parts.

Odd thing is that the cooler and lines didn't look any worse than most of
the other underhood components when I gave the car a once over last week....
hmmm.

-tom
'87 DORHNDL

> Message: 10
> From: Eyvind Spangen <eyvind.spangen at c2i.net>
> To: geo <gamills at ns.sympatico.ca>
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: questions about oil cooler - 2.3l 5kq
> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:46:24 +0200
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
> ES



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