A few oiling questions, lines, cooler and pressure

[suprra_girl]

Is there such a thing as having too small an oil cooler? I have one that is twice the size of stock and i'm running the permacool oil relocation kit from summit.
Is it possible to be too small?

Next question:
When i first started the car i popped a hose off my thermostat (b&m oil) had a look and no clamp, assumed i forgot it. Got a clamp and reclamped it and thought everything was fine and dandy till tonight
Noticed my oil pressure was dropping and i could smell oil burning and looked behind and oooh fun, smoke trailing behind LOL.
Shut off car in time (was only cruising at the time)
Have a look where my thermostat is and lo and behold that hose had no hose clamp and and popped off again

I believe the relocation kit uses -8an barb fittings and the hose i got was meant to be for that size. It does not pop off the oil cooler side but it does off the thermostat side.
I have barb fittings on the thermostat and pushlok's & fittings on the oil cooler.
Is there such a thing as crap hose? Are there better hose clamps out there that won't play invisibility tricks on me?

What could be causing it to pop off, this hose has attempted to end my engines life twice (without succeeding i might add hehe).

ps. i went off Ians (IJ) directions for in/out on the thermo and i figure 350km's later i would def know if it was backwards haha

 

[IJ.]

Suze: I run pushlocks on ALL my oil fittings and haven't had a single failure even at 100psi.

 

[suprra_girl]

Yea i'm thinking of removing the barbs that came with the thermo and putting pushloks on them
What about the hose, its some blue stuff that was a little cheaper than normal. The original hose is goodyear which i don't seem to be having problems with but this hose likes popping off *sniff*
I do remember that the hose to put on the pushlok was a b**tard but on the thermostat is not very hard at all, actually it's easy as.

 

[IJ.]

I'm just using Pirtek's multipurpose oil hose I can get the numbers off it later if you like?

Wasn't anything expensive or special just designed to work in this application and fits the pushlock barbs correctly (I spray some Windex in the hose to help it slide on and the Windex evaporates so they don't slide back off )

 

[suprra_girl]

i'm gonna ring my hose specialist today and see what they've got and if they don't have anything then i'll give ya a holler
I dunno if e get windex (sounds like some sort of windscreen washer?? lol)

i definitely need to get this fixed so i shall be doing whatever necessary

Thanks Ian

 

[IJ.]

Windex is just a spray on glass cleaner Suze
(it's quite volatile so evapororates well and doesn't leave a slime, hairspray works well but is a bitch to reuse the fittings if you need to later as the rubber sticks)

 

[Jaguar_5]

Why did I spend $12 on aeroquip assembly lube for my pushlock fittings? The windex almost sounds better, I like the evaporating part

 

[IJ.]

Jag: You didn't ask

 

[Jaguar_5]

Didn't even think about it, oh well! Thats basically pennies compared to what i've thrown away on parts I can't use

 

[shaeff]

i ran regular oil lines like you, suze, but then blew one up, completely covering my motor in oil. what a bitch that was to clean.

i've since upgraded to all SS braided line and -AN fittings.

 

[suprra_girl]

well, i'm going to be switching the blue hose off and using more goodyear hose as i don't seem to be blowing those off, just the blue one, and looking at a $20 hose clamp t-bolt style but for smaller hose, i'll be checking the direction of the thermo and finding out exactly which hose is blowing off but i would suspect the direction is fine as if it was backwards i wouldn't get oil pressure would i?

 

[IJ.]

The T Stat isn't really directional Suze.
(well not to the point it would pop hoses off)

"E" goes to engine "C" goes to cooler it's a bit hard to get it wrong

 

[mkIIIman089]

http://www.bsrproducts.com/product_info.php?products_id=153

 

[ILikeCarsYesIDo]

Speaking of directional, is the stock oil cooler directional at all?

I have a relocation kit and from the relocated filter OUT I have it to the stock IN of the cooler and OUT of the cooler to the IN on the adapter plate on the block.

As illustrated here:

I have the stock return line in the pan blocked off. So basically, OUT of relocated filter to the upper (line closest to the passenger side) line, and out of the lower line (line farthest from passenger side) to the IN on the adapter plate on the block.

 

[ILikeCarsYesIDo]

Bumping.

 

[IJ.]

Are you trying to use the stock cooler as a full flow system?

If so bzzzzzz wrong it doesn't flow enough to work as anything but a bypass cooler (return to the pan)

 

[ILikeCarsYesIDo]

That's all I needed to know. Thanks!

 

[MDCmotorsports]

Suze... some hoses are NOT compatible with some pushlocks....

 

[suprra_girl]

well on the pushlok it was fine, where it wasn't was on the barb fitting, it had deformed with the heat and pressure and would work itself loose. I've now got a decent hose and hopefully no more blow offs