OIL cooler

Mike I don't have an oil cooler on any of my old Fords. The one pictured don't look like it would do very much cooling but every little bit helps. I can tell you the oil filter mounted on the left rear side of the head gets REAL HOT. I had a problem with dirt in the fuel and reaching in to remove the flex hose and I got 2 big burns on the back of my left hand hand from the top edge of the oil filter that took six or 7 weeks to heal. The water temperature was less then 180. I think cooling the oil some would help with engine cooling. I had a GMC front wheel drive motor home and put a 500 CI cadilac engine in it. It had a full digital dash with an oil temperature gauge. At 50 MPH if I stepped on the gas to increase speed the oil temperature went up about like the speedometer. I describe this engine and flatheads as being like a gas operated hot water heater. More gas brings up the heat and I think most of this heat is from oil splashing up against the bottom of the pistons which are like big frying pans. Stay coool. G.M.
 
BIG MIKE .......................
You can probably find oil coolers at about any junk yard, maybe even something similar to what's pictured. You might get a large selection of transmission oil coolers to pick from.
Years ago, I paid $1.00 for a power steering fluid cooler to use as a oil cooler for my old Harley.
MIKE :)
 
That cooler looks a lot like ones on some air compressors or a short section of an A/C condenser coil. Most of the 59A type motors made after the war had a little casting pad next to where the oil port for the filter is. I guess the war time motors had that pad opened up and NPT threaded for the oil cooler set up for the Bren Gun Carrier and maybe others. I always wondered what kind of cooler they used. Aircraft use all kinds of different coolers since they use oil and air cooling to survive.

Kerby
 
Am I missing something? Where's the tank? I see a Bren Carrier, But I don't see a tank. You mean a vessel? Is it in the back ground some where? I don't get it.
 
When running the stock car we used a full flow oi filter with dual filters. Oil temp at the end of a race was250 degs. we installed the cheep alum fin covers on the filters and dropped the temp below 240. I welded a bung on the pan for a temp sender.
 
FL&WVMIKE said:
BIG MIKE .......................
You can probably find oil coolers at about any junk yard, maybe even something similar to what's pictured. You might get a large selection of transmission oil coolers to pick from.
Years ago, I paid $1.00 for a power steering fluid cooler to use as a oil cooler for my old Harley.
MIKE :)
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I knew a guy that made a ****** cooler in a pinch from the cooling grid off a fridge.:cool:
 
I have all those parts for the oil cooler on my carrier and hooked them all up this past spring it cools the oil sum what, the great thing about this is that every part is over 60 years old and not 1 part is NOS, No Leaks! Cheers BM
 
GM
We uses a Chrysler 4 core radiator. This was quite popular back then I think we used a 7lb cap maybe more. The temp was always hi in the 220 range.

We didn't do much in this area as the rules committee went to SBC of 310 Ci 4bl carb. etc. I offered my Ardun, but the sponsor/driver sold the car.

NOTE*** The track didn't last long after that the cost of racing went way up and the purse went down an soon the built a shopping center there
When the Flathead left Dan bury the lap times were in the 16 sec and after 3 more years racing with 3-400 hp engines they couldn't drop another sec. So much for horsepower.
 
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