[s-cars] Re: Volcano syndrome

PAUL GAILUS gailus at mindspring.com
Mon Jul 1 21:50:29 EDT 2002


The urS4/S6 has one of these loops of tubing to cool
the hydraulic fluid. It's in front of the air conditioning
condenser at the bottom. Real easy to see from the top.

-Paul

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Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 8:20 PM
Subject: [s-cars] Re: Volcano syndrome


> Many cars take the power steering line (metal) and put a long loop (2.5'
or
> so) into the airflow as a simple heat exchanger.  Probably fairly simple
to
> implement.  Wouldn't try an oil cooler, as I'm not sure how much
additional
> resistance the flow the system can take (assume you'd cool the return to
the
> pump from the reservoir).
>
> Chris
>
> I've never been to an event  where at least one new A4
> or New S4 didn't do the same thing.  Absolutely cook
> the rack and pump to death.
>
> I didn't know the urS4s could do it too.  My 91 200
> never did.  I don't know why any do except the heat
> build up is huge and no real cooler exists.
>
> Wouldn't it be neat to refit our  stock oil coolers as
> steering coolers and then upgrade the OE cooler to
> something "real"?
>
> Neil
>
>
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