well i officially got 5 hours out of my oil cooler before a line started spewing oil out by the fiting. go to work in a bit so over the
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04-06-2010, 02:07 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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another cooler explosion
well i officially got 5 hours out of my oil cooler before a line started spewing oil out by the fiting. go to work in a bit so over the next few days i'll take it all apart and take lots of photos and figure out whether i installed it wrong or if it was a bad hose. I'm out 70 bucks in redline oil and 75 plus tax for the tow. I'll figure out what happened first before i got to in depth. Oil light came on with about 2 some quarts of oil left.
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Well ****. What kind of lines and fittings were you using?
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I definitely think this car needs a cooler, at least my car, I could never drive spiritedly during the summer without one. It sucks.
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Yeah, tell me about it, I was upset, it was 88-89 degrees outside temp and stop and go traffic, not revving past 4500 got me to 240/250
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Im gonna have to disagree here,like I said only 70 degrees out and Im seeing 220 easy with just some quick pickups here and there. From what I can tell if you dont shift and keep you rpms below 3K you will see high temps. As it will get another 30+ degrees here I can only imagine what a spirited drive might give you temp wise, and since we dont really know what temp will start to cause the oil to F up, Im getting a small one to help keep them down. $240 dollars for everything.
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Judging by your sig, looks like another GTM cooler failure. GTM cited that hose modification was the culprit. Did you modify the hoses?
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How much slack was in your lines? My current thought is that with my first install I clamped the hoses too tight and vibration related fatigue caused the hose-to-fitting area to leak. I recall a few posts mentioning this as well.
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Yea, I have been thinking about replacing a portion of the hoses with hard line instead.
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