{"id":1108,"date":"2012-10-02T18:58:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2015-02-08T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:33:35","slug":"oil-cooler-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/02\/oil-cooler-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"12.1.2 Oil Cooler mod"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 22 of 50 in the series 12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

While I was working on the baffling, I heard from another builder who mentioned that he had a problem with his oil cooler hitting the engine mount. He said that when the engine is starting and stopping that it moves a bit and had removed some of the paint from the engine mount. He caught it before is wore a hole in the oil cooler.<\/p>\n

He had just less than 1\/2″ clearance.<\/p>\n

I decided to check mine and here’s what I found.<\/p>\n

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Not good. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I checked with the factory and they modified the engine mount a while back (before mine was made) to provide more clearance. They couldn’t figure out why I don’t have the proper clearance. They told me I could send back the mount and they would modify it but that would require removing the engine. I don’t have an engine hoist and doing it solo wouldn’t be fun. Plus, I didn’t know what other changes that modification would create.<\/p>\n

So I came up with plan B. I removed the oil cooler and sent it to Pacific Oil Cooler Services. Here’s the result:<\/p>\n

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This entry is part 22 of 50 in the series 12 - Engine \/ Propeller<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

While I was working on the baffling, I heard from another builder who mentioned that he had a problem with his oil cooler hitting the engine mount. He said that when the engine is starting and stopping that it moves … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"series":[36],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-44","series-12-engine-propeller"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}