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RE: Oil Cooler Fit and Cleaning

To: "'Matt Liggett'" <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>
Subject: RE: Oil Cooler Fit and Cleaning
From: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@attws.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:42:15 -0700
Cc: "'spridgets@Autox.Team.Net'" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: "Elliott, Patrick" <patrick.elliott@attws.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Send me the oil coolers you want to throw away. I'll use them!

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>From:  Derek Harling[SMTP:derek.lola@sympatico.ca]
>Reply To:      Derek Harling
>Sent:  Thursday, April 30, 1998 11:10 AM
>To:    Matt Liggett
>Cc:    spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>Subject:       Re: Oil Cooler Fit and Cleaning
>
>> > 2.  How do you clean out an oil cooler and tubing that has been opened up
>>to grime and dust and spiders for some time?
>> 
>> You don't.  How much is your engine worth?  Scrap that cooler.  In fact,
>>I'd scrap most any cooler of unknown parentage.  Who knows what sort of
>>accident may have exploded into its oil in the past.  With lots of little
>>bits just waiting to dislodge into your motor!
>> --
>
>I agree that is the common wisdom (never reuse a "used" oil cooler) but
>doesn't the oil filter take out the bits we are so frightened of. If not
>then the filter isn't much use is it?
>
>Derek Harling
>

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