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Perfect fitting oil cooler adapter

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Re: Sizing Oil Cooler To Application

Re: Sizing Oil Cooler To Application

Joe in Oregon said:
This site has some interesting info on sizing an oil cooler to an application:

http://www.lytron.com/standard/ex_select.htm

A brief web search showed coolers with the Derale name although some are made for Derale by a Swedish company. The picture of the Derale kit for a car looked pretty close to the picture of a kit in the JC Whitney car catalog.
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:? Uh, thanks. Now can you figure mine out for me? 8O :wink: :lol:
 
Hoomgar said:
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Hoomgar said:
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Thanks again Terry! Can you post some good close pic's of your cooler set up sometime?
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Of course mine isn't installed and I will most likely end up needing to order one of these adaptors as well but I have a new Derale cooler in the box if you want any pictures of it or any of it's parts Keith let me know and I'll dig it out and snap it for you.
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I'd appreciate that Mark! :D If you could, show all the parts and give the dimensions of the cooler please. Also the model/part #. So I'm assuming Derale is still in business?
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I'll do that tonight when I get home from work. I do not know if they are still in business or not as i bought this cooler off eBay as NOS.
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Uh, sorry Keith :oops:

No excuses about life being busy and all. I'll "try" to remember this tonight :oops:
 
Hoomgar said:
Hoomgar said:
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Hoomgar said:
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Thanks again Terry! Can you post some good close pic's of your cooler set up sometime?
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Of course mine isn't installed and I will most likely end up needing to order one of these adaptors as well but I have a new Derale cooler in the box if you want any pictures of it or any of it's parts Keith let me know and I'll dig it out and snap it for you.
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I'd appreciate that Mark! :D If you could, show all the parts and give the dimensions of the cooler please. Also the model/part #. So I'm assuming Derale is still in business?
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I'll do that tonight when I get home from work. I do not know if they are still in business or not as i bought this cooler off eBay as NOS.
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Uh, sorry Keith :oops:

No excuses about life being busy and all. I'll "try" to remember this tonight :oops:
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No rush man! I'm in no hurry. I've got over 125,000 total miles without any oil cooler. Just thought I'd research things and see what I want to do. :)
 
Here you go Keith. Apparantly I got the deal here! This is the kit that has the thermal regulator in it and it came with the adaptor too! I think I paid 60 for this? Gotta love eBay :)

Front:
DCP_7195.jpg


Top:
DCP_7198.jpg


Thermal regulator :)
DCP_7200.jpg


Parts, note the adaptor is there! Everything needed is here:
DCP_7203.jpg


Instructions back:
DCP_7206.jpg


Instructions front:
DCP_7210.jpg


Seems to be a nice kit. Try to find one of these suckers.
 
Super find Mark! I'm jealous. One more thing though. What is the cooler dimensions? Thanks a bunch for taking the time! :D
 
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Super find Mark! I'm jealous. One more thing though. What is the cooler dimensions? Thanks a bunch for taking the time! :D
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Another thing to "try" to remember tonight :lol:

I forgot that, you did ask, sorry about that.
 
Hoomgar said:
KEITH KRAUSE said:
Super find Mark! I'm jealous. One more thing though. What is the cooler dimensions? Thanks a bunch for taking the time! :D
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Another thing to "try" to remember tonight :lol:

I forgot that, you did ask, sorry about that.
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Keith, sorry this took so long. No excuses, I simply forgot. Here is the coolers measurements and if you would like to download a better copy of the instruction document it is HERE in a PDF file.

The cooler measurements:

Derale_Cooler_Measurements.jpg
 
I've had one of Terry Sherrifbuck's adaptors for a couple of summers now and I'm very impressed with his work. Here's two pics of it and two of the cooler which was made up from billet by another mate with a lathe.

oilcooler01.jpg


oilcooler02.jpg


oilcooler04.jpg


oilcooler05.jpg



Kim
 
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Hey Mark, thanks for the photos and instructions for the cooler. Until I saw your picture of the cooler I never did know what make mine was, now I do. Anyway, just for reference you will see that the previous owner bent the mounting brackets for easier mounting of the cooler, don’t do this. The way it is mounted in the picture the front fender actually hits the cooler when the suspension is fully compressed. I have since re-mounted the cooler by bending the brackets mostly straight again and getting the cooler as close as possible to frame tubes. You have to mount it as high and as close to the frame tubes as possible or you will put a nice dent in the top of the front fender. It seems to have a little more clearance that way. Are you listening Keith? You’ll be really pi$$ed if you put a dent in the top of your nice original front fender.

oilcooler.jpg
 
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