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Re: [Philly_MG_Club] Oil cooler

To: "Mgs@autox.team.net" <Mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Philly_MG_Club] Oil cooler
From: JAMES SCHULTE <schultejim@prodigy.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 03:44:49 -0800 (PST)
Max,
Thanks, good suggestion.  That's why I coach swimming
and am not a mechanic (-:
Jim
69C
--- Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com> wrote:
> Why not run one hose as a loop back to the other
> outlet? Of course, I'm not
> looking at it, and it may have different fittings on
> each end...
> 
> --
> 
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
> 
> on 11/30/02 10:10 AM, JAMES SCHULTE at
> schultejim@prodigy.net wrote:
> 
> > Larry,
> > How do I do that?  If I need to cap the filter
> > outlets, where do I find the caps and what size?
> At a
> > plumbing store?  Isn't it fine thread?
> > Jim
> > --- "Larry B. Macy, Ph.D."
> <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
> > wrote:
> >> OK, If you are just trying to see if it runs, why
> >> bother with an oil cooler
> >> at all?? Can't you bypass the cooler lines??
> >> 
> >> Larry
> >> 
> >> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Jim, I would highly recommend against using a
> >> used
> >>>> oil cooler. IMHO they
> >>>> can never be completely cleaned, they will
> still
> >>>> retain some residue, junk
> >>>> and perhaps bits of metal from inside the old
> >>>> engine. I don't care what
> >>>> anyone claims about cleaning them, you are
> taking
> >>>> about an item that costs
> >>>> a $150 or so against a $1000+ rebuild. If you
> >> don't
> >>>> care about your engine,
> >>>> then feel free to take the risk. The things
> don't
> >>>> cost all that much and I
> >>>> think this is a bad place to save a few bucks.
> >> Using
> >>>> a used oil cooler is
> >>>> false economy.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Of course your opinion may differ.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Larry
> >>>> 
> >>>> --On Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:31 AM -0500
> >>>> JDavis5073@aol.com wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> Jim,
> >>>>>        If you give me a call I've got one I
> >>>> removed from my 73. Your
> >>>>> welcome to it if you like. Might just cost you
> >> a
> >>>> cold brew next summer,
> >>>>> thats all. I also have the hoses if that
> helps.

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