Re: garbage in oil coolers

[Jeff Zurschmeide <j.zursch@domain.elided>]

At 12:01 PM 12/14/2001 -0500, Watry, Andrew (LNG-MBC) wrote:
>Re Steve's sad tale about shot gumming up his GTA engine, I've read in
>air-cooled Porsche racing circles, and general aviation piston airplanes,
>which both depend on oil coolers, that if you ever have a catastrophic
>engine failure, always throw away the oil cooler, because it will have
>gotten metal bits in it that there's no real way to get out.


Maybe I'm whistling past the graveyard, but on my racing A-H Sprite,
I plumbed the full-flow oil filter before the oil cooler, to catch any
schmutz and save me having to spend the extra C note every
time I grenade one of my self-basting time bombs.

So far (sound of madly knocking on wood like a Edinburgh tattoo),
I've not lost a motor to old grit lying in wait to strike when I
least expect. I lose them to other things.


JZ

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