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Author: Subject: Oil cooler fittings-opinions please
tul214

posted on 12/11/09 at 04:23 PM Reply With Quote
Oil cooler fittings-opinions please

Interested in hearing the pros/cons between the following 3 options;

1, push on hose and jubilee clips
2, fir tree fittings and aeroquip hose
3, swaged hose/fittings.

Thanks,

Mark





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snapper

posted on 12/11/09 at 07:48 PM Reply With Quote
I had firtree and clips on mine and the hose popped off at speed, now building a new engine and have full screw on fittings all round, just in case





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Jon Ison

posted on 12/11/09 at 07:53 PM Reply With Quote
Number 3 for sure.






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jacko

posted on 12/11/09 at 08:49 PM Reply With Quote
ONLY no 3
my son nearly lost his skyline engine because he jubilee cliped the pipes on his oil cooler the ends had fir tree ends

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cd.thomson

posted on 13/11/09 at 08:53 AM Reply With Quote
mine are swaged too.





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