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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: stewardc on March 08, 2009, 04:24:54 pm

Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: stewardc on March 08, 2009, 04:24:54 pm: When you replace the old oil/water oil cooler on an AAZ, with an oil/air one, what do you do with all the extra water hoses?
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 08, 2009, 11:27:07 pm: buy water hoses for an old n/a diesel. i know for a fact that the hoses from a 1980 1.5 diesel are just what you are looking for. or you can just shove something in the ends of the hoses and hose clamp them. but thats kinda ghetto-fab engineering.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: gldgti on March 09, 2009, 12:24:38 am: i wouldnt block them, but yo could put in a pipe to join the hoses to eachother... so the water still flows
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 09, 2009, 12:26:59 am: wouldnt block them? they are just the heater hoses. if you block off the hoses, or get the other hoses that are just straight, (no grafted on hose pieces coming off) then you are basically just blocking the ends of the hoses you already have.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Powered by Spearco on March 09, 2009, 12:27:50 am: Or you could use the oil cooler delete style hoses and also change the oil filter flange center pipe to convert to non- oil cooler. Right.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 09, 2009, 12:32:52 am: Quote from: "Powered by Spearco"
Or you could use the oil cooler delete style hoses and also change the oil filter flange center pipe to convert to non- oil cooler. Right.

what he said.. thats the thought im trying to get out of my head and into words.. use old style non oil cooler hoses with the short nipple instead of the 2" one that holds the cooler on. this is exactly what i did. got rid of that stupid leaky factory oil cooler.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: TurboJ on March 09, 2009, 08:01:28 am: I bought a combination of TD and N/A diesel coolant hoses.
Chances are your hoses have never been replaced - in which case they really should be by now.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: stewardc on March 09, 2009, 08:22:16 am: So I could just cut out the "T" in the hose and put in some stainless pipe???
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 09, 2009, 12:59:33 pm: no no no. dont ruin your TD lines. those things are expensive. buy N/A diesel coolant hoses. they didnt come with an oil cooler from the factory. it will bypass the factory one without making a bunch of ugly mess. trust me on this. theres a little tapered rubber hose coming off the middle of the water pump, it connects up to the heater pipe and coolant reservoir. then theres a second hose coming off the top hose nipple off the pump. replace both of those hoses with n/a hoses. then you have a factory looking oil cooler delete. trust me on this one.. ive done it. and know it works. thats how my car has been for the last year.
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: stewardc on March 09, 2009, 01:16:33 pm: Quote from: "Rabbit on Roids"
no no no. dont ruin your TD lines. those things are expensive. buy N/A diesel coolant hoses. they didnt come with an oil cooler from the factory. it will bypass the factory one without making a bunch of ugly mess. trust me on this. theres a little tapered rubber hose coming off the middle of the water pump, it connects up to the heater pipe and coolant reservoir. then theres a second hose coming off the top hose nipple off the pump. replace both of those hoses with n/a hoses. then you have a factory looking oil cooler delete. trust me on this one.. ive done it. and know it works. thats how my car has been for the last year.

Got any pics for illustrations sake ?
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 09, 2009, 01:53:23 pm: damn the pics. im still kinda new here and dont know how to post pics. ill take some tho. theres plenty of diesels around here to look at :)
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Vincent Waldon on March 09, 2009, 02:24:55 pm: Quote from: "Rabbit on Roids"
damn the pics. im still kinda new here and dont know how to post pics.

If you're looking for some instructions the FAQ has a thread on hosting pictures... ;-)

(the previous message was sponsored by your friendly neighbourhood Moderator, who encourages us all to read the FAQ so that we don't die of boredom talking about the same stuff again and again and again and... ;-))
Title: AAZ oil cooler
Post by: Rabbit on Roids on March 09, 2009, 02:34:32 pm: thanks vince, thats what i was looking for. damn im glad theres people like you on here to help out the retards like me.