I should also mention that you can clean it all you like but once it is
installed, it gets hot oil under pressure continuously (for hours and hours)
running through the cooler. That will probably loosen or dissolve stuff
that you have partially loosened with your attempts at cleaning.
Just say no (to used oil coolers)!
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gigante <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
To: Matt Kulka <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com>; mgs@autox.team.net
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: Oil Cooler Cleaning
>Don't do it. I'm not sure about the B, but if it the same as the spridget,
>the oil cooler is AFTER the oil filter. Any crud you don't get goes
straight
>to you lovely new bearing surfaces.
>
>For $90 do you really want to seriously risk your motor?
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Kulka <Matt.Kulka@hboc.com>
>To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 7:01 AM
>Subject: Oil Cooler Cleaning
>
>
>>Regarding my '74 B...
>>
>>Coming ever closer to the moment when engine and bodyshell will have
>>their glorious reunion, some new thoughts have come to mind.
>>
>>When I used to work on VW's, I used to thoughtlessly run some solvent
>>through the old oil cooler and slap it back on the motor. Having had a
>>second look at the MG cooler, I noticed that it's inlet and outlet are
>>on the top. To me that means there's a veritable Fort Knox of old crud
>>laying in the bottom. I'm thinking about what that's going to do to my
>>sparkling new bearings, and clean, smooth oil passages.
>>
>>I priced a new 13-row cooler at around $90.00 (US). So my question is:
>>Has anyone found a really great way to clean out the old cooler and
>>reuse it?
>>
>>Any advice would be appreciated as quickly as practical. The wife is so
>>sick of seeing her garage taken up, she's actually encouraging me to go
>>out and work on the car. A mixed blessing to be sure.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Matt Kulka
>>'74 B - which should be together just in time for the weather that's too
>>hot for top down driving.
>>
>
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