Date:         Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:02:50 -0800
Reply-To:     "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: replacing oil cooler O-ring
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If you clamp the hoses and leave them attached to the cooler, there isn't
enough play in the hoses to get the cooler over the threaded pipe and free
the o-ring. You have to remove the hoses or back the threaded pipe out of the
engine block. Trust me, I tried to just clamp the hose and there was no way
to get the cooler off the pipe that way. I did the "remove the hoses" thing
as I didn't have a big nut for the threaded pipe, and it's a difficult job
that way. There is very little room, it's hard to get the hoses back on and
mine developed coolant leaks a couple of times and became another job to deal
with. Backing the threaded pipe out seems like a much easier way (although I
didn't actually try it that way myself).

Bill H.
88GL

--- Christopher Gronski <gronski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Ken certainly knows more about all things mechanical than I do, but
> why would you drain you coolant and then have to go through the whole
> system bleeding process when you could just clamp off the lines and
> top up as I have suggested?
>
> Chris
>


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