ATTENTION: read if your oil cooler fittings face DOWN!

chops · 07-20-2012, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tranceformer

I have my oil cooler fittings facing up and the last few oil changes I did not drain the oil cooler + lines. Blackstone results don't show any noticeable differences so I'm ok with that.

Note: in the past I would unmount the oil cooler and invert it so that the oil would flow to the sandwich plate. This worked pretty well, as opposed to the one time that I removed a fitting and almost had a leak. Never again.

Yeah that's my 2 cents.

ahh interesting. reason i asked is because of this actually...my last few blackstone UOA's said to up the intervals to 5k. but if im going to be basically only changing 85% of the old oil out to put in new oil, i should think about bringing it down?

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