Oil Cooler Leaking?

BettyZ

If the fitting can rotate, it's not tight enough.

My advice, pull the bumper and crash bar off. Only takes me ab 6 minutes. Clean the oil cooler THOROUGHLY. Until there's no trace of oil.

Then button it back up, drive around, inspect it. Be sure to check your oil levels too.

Also, if you have an oil cooler. You should have an oil pressure gauge. By the time the OEM pressure warning light goes off, it's too late and you need a new engine. I got my gauge from Defi, and bought an A-pillar finisher with an integral gauge pod. Well worth it!

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Rusty

Did you use teflon tape or a teflon thread sealant paste on the fittings that screw into the cooler? If not, it may weep.

As for the oil pressure gauge. Good idea. But if you get one. It has to read up to 150 psi. Oil pressure on a cold start up is over 100 psi. I'm using SpeedHut gauges.

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1/4atatime

I used loctite 567 sealant which is what was recommended on Modshack's DIY oil cooler thread.

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Rusty

It's good stuff. One thing about using it. You have to leave it sit for a few hours for best results.

I got tubes of the stuff for free from work.

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1/4atatime

I let it sit over night before taking the car out so it should have been long enough. I did turn the car on to park it and let the engine run for a few minutes to circulate the oil but it shouldn't have affected the stuff sealing too much. How hard is it to install a oil pressure gauge?

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BettyZ

Not terribly difficult. There is a significant amount of wiring. You have to run the wires through the firewall. The passenger side, behind the battery, has some weird ribbed condom-style gasket where a bunch of wires run through the firewall. I ran mine though there. There are DIYs here explaining it.

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1/4atatime

Ok I'll do that and thanks for the advice with the oil pressure gauge. I checked the oil levels they looked fine.

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