I've worried about the AC and the radiator (especially living in Washington DC) but feel I gotta
have an oil cooler. Still, I may be exploring a remote placement, too. Anyone else have
problems w/ this?
Jef
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Donald replied to my oil cooler e
>
> I'll give you a heads up about placing the Oil cooler in front of the A/C.
> If your A/C isn't blowing cold for you now, the oil cooler with 200+ oil is
> not going to help the A/C! If there a ATF cooler ther thats just takes away
> from the ATF cool also. I had a oil cooler on my dak and removed. Found the
> A/C works much nicer and quicker with out it.
>
> I'm been thinking about a remote mount for the oil cooler somewhere else.
> -->
> > On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:05:07 -0400, Jeffery B. Denning
> > <jldenning@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello all -
> >> I've recently installed an oil cooler on my 99 5.2L 4x4 atx. It's
> >> positioned low and centered on
> >> the AC condenser, meaning it's mostly behind the center of the three
> >> holes in the plastic
> >> cladding below the bumper. There's no grill in these holes and the so
> >> the cooler is not
> >> protected from brush, rocks, etc. (The thing was whacked by something
> >> the first weekend out.)
> >> Has anyone seen a source (retailer) for grills for this section of our
> >> trucks? Or, has anyone
> >> made their own grill?
> >>
> >> I'm also thinking about making/buying a crash-bar like apparatus that
> >> installs behind the plastic
> >> cladding, and probably attaches to the tow hook mounting apparatus. Any
> >> ideas for this?
>
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