[Fot] Oil line & cooler flush

[fubog1]

Yeah I wasn't considering replacing the cooler as part of a routine oil service, that would be a bit extreme...!
I do a detailed strip and clean on the oil system and fit a new cooler after any metal-making event or a fresh engine installation.
I also normally run the oil through an Oberg, and then through a spin-on paper element filter before it goes back in.
This way if the Oberg goes into any bypass (cold start), the spin-on will catch anything that gets through.
Glen


 

 

 

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Completely agree that oil coolers are disposable when something happens.  But I  think this is about routine maintanence.  When you change the oil, you don’t throw the cooler away.  


All of my cars the oil from the cooler goes through the filter.  I’m not sure  what the benefit of any of this is. 

Don’t use a crappy filter.  Regardless of what you do to the lines, cooler etc, you are trying to keep your oil clean when the car is running.  If your filter sucks then everything else won’t matter. 


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On 03-Jan-2018, at 5:34 PM, fubog1 via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:



I have a specific test procedure that I use on oil coolers, prior to attempted cleaning.
It involves the use of a nasty-ass chipping-hammer, the pointy end...
Oil coolers are cheap, racing engines aren't.
Glen


 

 

 

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Sent: Wed, Jan 3, 2018 2:27 am
Subject: [Fot] Oil line & cooler flush

I was in the industrial cleaning industry for a while and the only effective oil cooler cleaning I knew of was done by immersion in an ultrasonic tank with a pressured flow through the cooler. The ultrasonic action dislodged particulates which were extracted by the fluid flow through the cooler. This used aqueous cleaning solution (solvents do not work with ultrasonics) heated to 180*F and with a mild alkaline degreasing agent. It is cost justified in fleet maintenance settings, but buying a replacement oil cooler is probably less expensive for us racers.

John Frymark

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