[V8] Oil cooler lines

[Dave Head]

The long slim radiator under the main radiator is the OIL cooler. The 
auto trans cooler is located in the driver's side main radiator tank. If 
you have a 92 up V8 there is an added trans cooler/fan under/outboard 
the drivers side frame rail in front of the wheel well.

Kneale Brownson wrote:

>I took off the belly pan to clean up the mess from the hydraulics pump leak
>we just developed on the V8, and I see a discouraging wetness around the
>lower connector to the tranny oil cooler.  That's what the little radiator
>thingy below the other radiator is, isn't it?  My version of ETKA doesn't
>show the alignment of parts I see under our car.
>
>Anyway, the braided steel lines end at the little radiator  with very rusty
>connedtors, and the lower one, on the passenger side of the cooler, is all
>wet, I presume from tranny oil.  Everything else in the vicinity is dry, so
>I presume the rust is penetrating to the point of allowing seepage.
>
>If I undo that line (if I can find a replacement), does all the fresh
>tranny oil I've just been installing run out?  There's a plate held in
>place by allen screws that appears to firm up that connection.  Does that
>mean I can unscrew the plate and then just pull out the lines?
>
>If the lines turn out to be typically Audi-overpriced, is there an alternative?
>
>How long will a rusting, oozing connector last before it dumps all the
>tranny fluid?
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