Oil Cooler Disaster !

[DanShapotsky]

Hi All

..continuing on with my general bike maintenance and overhaul, last night it was the turn of the Oil cooler and lines.. you know how crudded up they can get and mine was looking particularly grubby so off she came... straightforward enough - removing the lines from the cooler end however proved to be a bit of a protracted skirmish...

..me and my mate Dave (who's shed I keep my bike in) pondered the v.tight connections for a good while, but as is sometimes the case eventually it comes down to 'give it some and hope for the best'... so out with me best 19mm snapon combi... and u guessed it... snapped the fecker clean off at the base :rolleye::yawn:

..so the next question is... has anyone swapped out their cooler for a shiny new earls or somesuch ? - I'm looking for a second hand one in the short term (much like me monoshock lol) - I'm not so much a cheapskate (honest :D) - but with 3 kids and two weeks in Gran Canaria looming in a fortnights time, not shelling out for shiny new bits is deffo the only way to keep sweet with the Mrs - not to mention retaining some of my more sensitive anatomical organs :D

..bit of a long shot I know but I thought I'd ask anyway.. cant think of a better place to pose a question like that - failing that I'll have to come up with a mending solution which aint gonna be easy cos of the way it broke... ho hum :(

Cheers :cool:

Dano

[Iconic944ss]

Hmmmm - not good but a good lesson !!! I did wonder about having a clean out myself.

Well....breakers, it did an excel listing a while back....

http://www.ducatisportingclub.com/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=3107#pid24399

Hmmmm...update also attached.... (seems 2 b missing from my original thread)

I seem to remember Demon tweaks selling multi row oil coolers - but they aint gonna be cheap I'm afraid

Good luck - Frank

[DanShapotsky]

thanks Frank

..I'm looking into getting it specialist welded, it was actually the block that the line feeds into on the bottom of the cooler that came off, so if you are taking yours off make sure that you clamp the cooler horizontally into the vice, holding against the two blocks and a bit of wood between the mounting lugs... if I'd done that the pressure of trying to turn the union would not have transferred... live and learn !

Cheers

Dano

[DanShapotsky]

Hi again...

..just a quick (and final for that cooler at least) update :rolleye:

..duly got it back from being welded last night and popped it on, secured all, and fired her up... took all of 3 seconds to get things settled on the choke and look down, by which time it had offloaded about half a gallon of lube all over my mates lovely clean garage floor ... oops !

..took it off and spent the rest of the evening attempting to catch the remaining leaks with some mega tough araldyte compound, but to no avail.. I've replaced my oil pressure switch with a gauge and when it fires up there's around 80psi instantly - and try as I may, I just ended up chasing leaks further and further from the source... so it's a binner - foned my local breaker and he's happy to let me have a rummage round his coolers for something suitable - £20.. cant say fairer than that I suppose.

..so - if you fancy a shot at removing and cleaning that cooler - take my advice and leave the hoses attached at the cooler end... just aint worth the grief :oink:

Cheers :cool:

Dano