Yes my last Dodge pick up a 72 with the 400cid motor was old when I got it
so I installed a sandwich thermostat plate. Helped keep the Psi up on long
trips hauling a 12 foot camper.
Paul Van Wig
Long Beach, CA
pvanwig@charter.net
60 Bugeye
60 Minor Woody
61 Minor Pickup
01 Dodge Cummins Turbocharged Intercooled Diesel
01 Acura MDX (Wifes Ride)
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From owner-spridgets-mod at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets-mod@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
Daniel1312@aol.com
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 12:41 PM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Oil Cooler installation - A series
Hi List,
Since things are quiet I thought I'd post with some idle tech chat.
Ok. On the A-series fitting an oil cooler entails ditching the copper block
to filter head pipe and running 2 long hose runs to and from the oil cooler.
If you run a thermostat you cut the lines to have 4 hose ends and the
thermostat fits in the middle. What you are left with is a thermostatically
controlled oil cooler with a lot of hose and a chunky thermostat unit
cluttering up the
engine bay.
It is possible to fit a sandwich plate but why bother when you can have
massive hose runs instead...............
Jump forward and the now not so recent development is the sandwich plate
with
a thermostat incorporated into it. And, you can't get thermostat units for
the failed in the open position thermostat sitting in the middle of those
big
long hose runs.
So, rather than buy a replacement thermostat unit that you can replacement
guts for, it seems an option would be to put the copper engine block to
filter
head pipe back even though it looks tasteless and have a neat thermostatic
sandwich plate under the filter head with short hose runs.
Anyone gone down this road yet?
Any thoughts?
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