oil cooler delete
- Thread starter sweetdiesel
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Well I had the front cover off at the time of rebuild and welded it closed
Last year I had the water pump just sealed off ( bulky )
I just made a plate that hooks to the rear adapter plate to attach my new coolant line
The oil is easy and I think Ppe still sells the plate that enables us to run hose off the in/out of the oil gallery
It's pretty straight forward
As for the check valve I'm just referring to that as the same reason some people would use one on oil lines for turbos so it doesn't drain back for start up, you would likely want this as you would loose a lot more volume thru larger lines and a cooler
Similar to Simon:
We made a block off plate where the factory water pump was. It's actually tapped for my turbo oil return. We used a plate on the rear cover that has a fitting tapped into it for the water hose from the electric pump. The factory oil cooler was cut in half so it is basically a flat plate that gets tapped for an-10 fittings. Then lines are run from there to a Holley disk oil filter mounted to the frame just below the drivers door.
Sorry I don't have pics here but see my old puller thread from a few years back.
We made a block off plate where the factory water pump was. It's actually tapped for my turbo oil return. We used a plate on the rear cover that has a fitting tapped into it for the water hose from the electric pump. The factory oil cooler was cut in half so it is basically a flat plate that gets tapped for an-10 fittings. Then lines are run from there to a Holley disk oil filter mounted to the frame just below the drivers door.
Sorry I don't have pics here but see my old puller thread from a few years back.
http://www.duramaxdiesels.com/forum/showpost.php?p=69552&postcount=1
See the second pic from the right for the modded cooler
See the second pic from the right for the modded cooler
Ed made a good point about the oil drain into where the WP was
I did the same thing
I used a oil filter housing from system one
I did the same thing
I used a oil filter housing from system one
That's some good work! Any interest in detailing how you did that, more pictures?:thumb:
I''ll see if I can get more pics when we put our heads back on next week and start putting our motor back in.
Sorry Dave, I forgot.:hug:
The lines are zip tied out of the way while the engine was on a stand. I have a Holley (Oberg) filter mounted to the frame rail that the lines normally run to.
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Thanks for the pics it makes more sense to me now. Where does the coolant line go?
I see .... Just to be different I went in the opposite side
Hind sight though is it is pretty cramped around my starter, but with the mid plate there isn't much room to run coolant and oil lines behind the motor
A lot nicer changing the filter eh Ed
Yep. And being able to see if anything is in the screen too.
On that oil cooler delete did you just tap thoes fittings into the old oil cooler half or did you have to modify the stock oil cooler to make that work?