Glen beat me to it! I agree entirely. Consider the cost of an engine vs the
cost of an oil cooler and once you have those values in your mind; roll in the
cost of a lost weekend ? what do you want to risk? The problem with coolers is
they often trap particles that can?t be simply flushed out with a low viscosity
fluid. How many bits does it take to destroy a bearing? When you find out at
elevated rpms it?s instantly a very expensive mistake.
To coin a clich? ; ? Choose wisely!? The cost of a cooler is cheap insurance. I
always keep at least one spare on the shelf.
Russ
Spitfire #49
From: Fot [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of fubog1 via Fot
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2018 7:04 AM
To: jfrymark at aol.com; toodamnfunky at comcast.net
Cc: fot at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Fot] Oil line & cooler flush
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
-----Original Message-----
From: John Frymark via Fot <fot at autox.team.net>
To: toodamnfunky <toodamnfunky at comcast.net>
Cc: fot <fot at autox.team.net>
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
Sent from my iPad
_______________________________________________
fot at autox.team.net
http://www.fot-racing.com
Archive: http://www.team.net/archive
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://autox.team.net/pipermail/fot/attachments/20180103/b8ec470a/attachment.html>
|