Paul wrote,
>Since we're on the subject of oil coolers, does anyone know if all Series
Vs
>had them? I've got a fairly early V (about 4000 into the production run)
>with the original engine but no oil cooler and no obvious indication that
it
>ever had one fitted. Is it likely that a DPO would have gone to the trouble
>of removing it? Having said all that, I'm really more curious than anything
>as the oil pressure is right up where it should be even on long hot runs...
>Cheers,
>Paul.
yes, all SV's had factory coolers.
I think Chris McGoverns books says something to the effect that
the rootes ENGINEers found that the new stroked 5 main engine seemed
to run hotter than the earlier 3 main engines.
Fitting the cooler seemed to do the job, so all SV alpines, and likely
all 1492/1725 5 main chrysler products had coolers too.
If you had a cooler, the cooler base mounts just beneath the oil filter
base, and has two 1 inch diam rubber hoses that route to the cooler through
the rad support sheetmetal.
The cooler itself mounts under the front valance with two large nuts.
The stock cooler looks like a fuzzy broom handle as the cooler has
a few thousand copper loops that acts as a radiator.
The cooler base impedes fuel pump and side cover removal, so if you've
aver removed either of these, you are either quite imtimate with the cooler
hardware, or you dont have it.
Jarrid
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