OIL COOLER HELP!

[Piggy]

So we all know my history with oil coolers.... or more to the point the oil lines.

Cheap rubber flexi ones, they blew. Then some braided high pressure AN fitting ones...they blew too.

So I gave up.

Now more recently was attempting again. Had the cooler and a plate. Needed lines. Broke the plate. Fixed the plate. Still needed lines. 

THEN I Bought lines with thermostatic plate off "calibra306" on here. 

So the stuff arrives and the lines have the threaded parts of an old cooler (torn off in an accident) still on them. And they are seized. I mean proper seized. I mean in a vice with a breaker bar won't budge, lifting the workbench seized.

So I tell him and he says if I can't make them budge to send them back for a refund...well I couldn't and now I havn't heard from him in months. NOT HAPPY.

Anyway...buy another mocal cooler and pirtek lines off someone else on here. All good, in great condition. 

Went to fit them to today to find this:

oil cooler end:

   

Sandwich plate end:

   


This is no complaint to the seller, I am not sure if he realised, plus more my bad luck with bloody coolers.

Anyway. I need to plate end to also be a male fitting AND the thread is a weird size, just SLIGHTLY bigger than the cooler end and doesn't match ANY of the other mocal fittings I have. 

Any ideas?

Also anyone know what thread the sandwich plate is so I can start searching for the correct adapters??


going slightly insane 

[tigerstyle]

You can't grind/chisel the stuck fittings off?

[welshpug]

1/2" BSP IIRC, but it'll say on the cooler, sandwich plate I have is the same thread on both.

[cully]

had all mine made with 1/2" bsp fittings, as i bought a cooler with 1/2" bsp outlets,then bought the 1/2bsp adapters for the mocol takeoff plate

[Piggy]

Yeah the cooler is 1/2bsp but the other end of pirtek lines are a tad bigger.
Is the thread in the sandwich plate 1/2bsp yeah?

[cully]

no idea what the female thread in your plate is as you can buy different threaded size's for what you want,
i did use 1/2" to 1/2" male adaptors to screw into the plate on mine i think

[r3k1355]

Take the plate down to Pirtek or an engineering place if you can, get them to measure it up and tell you for sure.

[cully]

   

[Piggy]

Thanks guys. Nearest pirtek to me is MILES away. Not time to travel either.

But guna get digi calipers out n have a measure up.

[welshpug]

http://www.thinkauto.com/

[Piggy]

Thanks welshpug.

May have sorted it by finding the adapters that were used originally for pirtek to make the lines with

[welshpug]

think auto only list two different threads for a mocal takeoff, 1/2"BSP or M18x1.5.

[Dum-Dum]

James for f*ck sake. When I get a car I'm coming to you one day, removing the cooler and sandwich plate and driving you to Watford to get some perfect hoses knocked up.

[Piggy]

I was hoping these would be bob on, and there are WELL made tbh. But just a random size on the plate end!

[adam b]

Cotswold hydraulic in Tewkesbury

[toseland]

Do it properly,

do it once

http://www.mocal.co.uk/distributors.html#UK

[Piggy]

Wow thats reeeaaally helpful toseland, thankyou SO much!!

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Cotswold hydraulic in Tewkesbury

Ahh handy to know! Ta Adam

[thododd]

Pirtek gloucester cant be far from you. Theyre behind the new asda in kings way

[Piggy]

Pirtek gloucester cant be far from you. Theyre behind the new asda in kings way

Qhh good to know.

I have no time during day between now and action day to go though

[welshpug]

pop into merlin motorsport then

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Looking at the pics again, just looks like you need a different end fitting, as the seat is the wrong type for all the adapters listed.

I think merlin can do swaging, call them to check if they could do it Saturday morning for you, you will lose a little length on the hose

[Piggy]

Yeah the seat is female and needs to be male.

Ive tracked down the fittings Pirtek used to make the lines though so all should be well.

Thanks tho everyone... Good thread for my ref in future for nrby places to use!

[thododd]

Bristol hose are good too. Better priced than pirtek and will do call outs and 'on site fitting' ... ive sent them to dorset a few times to make new hoses for my works plant equipment