Oil Cooler whine?

houkouonchi

Which dealer is that? I see your in riverside so really close to me. Actually I go to the riverside dealership (performance nissan).

Funny enough they said one other guy was waiting for the oil cooler too (I was waiting longer at 3+ months). Is it the same dealership? LOL.

I did talk to the guys there and they said that they couldn't wrap the lines to get rid of the noise as it would void the warranty or some crap. =( That was a bit lame but the sound doesn't bug me THAT much so I will live.

onzedge

It is not difficult to wrap them yourself. When I installed my oil cooler, I bought about 4 feet of heater hose that has the same ID as the oil cooler lines' OD. I slit the hose length-wise and cut it into sections. I wrapped and zip tied the hose pieces everywhere the oil cooler lines touched anything -- maybe 3 places total.

I did not do it to elimiate noises, but to prevent any chafing of the lines against other parts.

Food for thought.

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supunna_picta

I've seen a couple of threads on oil coolers causing whining noises, the car whines a lot without one. Even after you turn the car off with the clutch in it whines, and then you let the clutch out and it stops. I had the hood off of the car for repainting and it was really noticeable, this was just before I installed an oil cooler (Z1) this week, no change in sound afterwards. YMMV but I think it's the way it is.

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roy'sz

I go to Raceway Nissan. So did the wrapping cure your problem with the whineing sound as far as the wrap that you used? I took it to them today and it got rid of about 20% of the noise. So Im guessing maybe the rest is from the cooler having now rubber grommets for the pusling problem. I remember when I was in the navy and worked in the engineroom we could tell if a rubber boot went out on the platform for the engines, it'd give off a little sound. Z1 does have reasonable prices but I got mine from Nissan North america through their consumer affairs line. I haven't heard any success from anyone on here as far as getting rid of the noise problem, its frustrating that it is there in place of hot oil temps. I guess I'll just get a loud a$$ exhaust to dround out the whine? yeah buddy!!!!