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Oil Cooler with Thermostat Installation Question

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beez

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I'm in the process of installing an oil cooler on my car. I have the spin on adapter installed, the cooler mounted the the tubing run to the thermostat. Apparently the thermostat must have the oil flow a certain way through the contraption in order to work properly. Does anyone know which port on the spin-on adapter has the oil flowing from the engine? I have it plugged into the top port if the filter is facing down.

Thanks!
 
To find which one is output, disconnect both hoses and the coil wire, then spin the engine to build oil pressure when someone watches the open ends of the hoses for oil.

(I lived in Spartanburg a few years back, great area!)
 
PeterK said:
To find which one is output, disconnect both hoses and the coil wire, then spin the engine to build oil pressure when someone watches the open ends of the hoses for oil.

(I lived in Spartanburg a few years back, great area!)
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I live there now. A long, long way from Maine, literally and figuratively.
 
Thanks Peter! I was hoping to avoid having to do that, but sometimes it has to be done!

Spartanburg and Greenville have both grown considerably since I moved here in 1997! Now if we can find a way to shrink them back down! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif Why did you move to Maine? I can imagine it's quite nice there. My neighbor was telling me how he using to live up there and his first car was a TR3... he said it was quite difficult to drive durring the winter! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Billspit, in what part of Spartanburg do you live?
 
Re: Greenville/Spartanburg

My wife and I both worked for adidas and really loved everything about the area as well as our jobs. But death of family members helped us decide to move closer to my family.

I graduated from USC Columbia in 1980 and lived in that area for around 15 years.

Still I see a possible future back in GSP someday. Jobs are drying up here and I've been out of work for 3 years. I was a mainframe computer systems person and all jobs have moved out of state.

Right now, Maine is a good state to live in, I like Vermont a little better but Maine is closer to the ocean.
 
Re: Greenville/Spartanburg

Adam,

The "dirty" oil exits the block and enters the filter through the small array of holes on the base of the filter housing. Oil flows through the filtering media and is routed back to the engine through the center where the threads are.

I would plumb the 'filtered' oil through the thermostat and that in turn would lead into the oil cooler, back into the block. I would be leery about running 'dirty' oil through the oil cooler.

joe
 
Re: Greenville/Spartanburg

My 16-row cooler works very well for me during hot weather. I do not have an inline oil thermostat. That said, I really feel that I need to get one of those oil cooler plastic blocking clip-on screens from Vicky Brit (only place I've seen them). My engine runs too cool in cold weather.
 
Re: Greenville/Spartanburg

Like when it gets down to around 55 or 60 degrees, down there in that beautiful southern state?
 
Re: Greenville/Spartanburg

Brosky said:
Like when it gets down to around 55 or 60 degrees, down there in that beautiful southern state?
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I drove to New Orleans a few weeks ago, top down and the temp was 30*. Great fun. The only thing showing was my nose and eyeballs.
 
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