tegwin
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 06:24 PM |
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Mounting oil cooler sideways
I have a standard mocal type oil cooler with the connections on the top.
Can I turn the entire cooler through 90 degrees so the inlet/outlet are on the side? Obviously feed the hot oil into the top and take cool oil out
the bottom?
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designer
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 06:36 PM |
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You can, as long as you can bleed it of air.
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MK9R
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 06:38 PM |
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Ran mine like that for 2 years in the race car, no probs
Cheers Austen
RGB car number 9
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 07:12 PM |
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Will be fine, don't worry about trying to bleed air etc it will be fine
The factory fitted one on my defender is up the side of the radiator
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Davey D
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 07:15 PM |
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Im sure I've seen a fitting guide that says fitting it at 90deg gives optimal cooling
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Fatgadget
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 07:24 PM |
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I've seen oil coolers mounted sideways,upright,flat.... in fact every which way imaginable.Ive also seen them blanked off with gaffer tape!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 07:27 PM |
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Unlike a water rad It will have to be in at the bottom and out at the top to let the air out .
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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tegwin
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 08:29 PM |
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Excellent news 
Do Mocal use a standard thread on the male connectors to the cooler? I need to somehow step it down to 10mm copper pipe (cooling for a jet engine)
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Slimy38
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 08:30 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Unlike a water rad It will have to be in at the bottom and out at the top to let the air out .
But surely unlike a water radiator you're not overly bothered about a bit of air? Water systems are under pressure (and get a bit funny with air
in the system), wet sump oil systems aren't?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 09:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Slimy38
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Unlike a water rad It will have to be in at the bottom and out at the top to let the air out .
But surely unlike a water radiator you're not overly bothered about a bit of air? Water systems are under pressure (and get a bit funny with air
in the system), wet sump oil systems aren't?
70psi is a bit more than you get in cooling system.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 10/11/12 at 09:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Slimy38
quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Unlike a water rad It will have to be in at the bottom and out at the top to let the air out .
But surely unlike a water radiator you're not overly bothered about a bit of air? Water systems are under pressure (and get a bit funny with air
in the system), wet sump oil systems aren't?
A air in the cooling system might cause overheating if it's sufficient to airlock it, but it won't starve your main and big end bearings
of oil at an inappropriate moment...
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