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Re: Oil Cooler Fit and Cleaning

To: Mike Gigante <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
Subject: Re: Oil Cooler Fit and Cleaning
From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:24:49 -0400
Cc: Matt Liggett <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
References: <005d01bd7496$5c548000$13d767cb@mikeg>
Reply-to: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Bad design.
If that's how spridgets were designed I'm glad I left England.
Derek


Mike Gigante wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, the oil cooler is usually *after* the oil filter...
> 
> Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Harling <derek.lola@sympatico.ca>
> To: Matt Liggett <mliggett-receive-spridgets@elise.kiva.net>
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 4:25 AM
> 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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