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Oil Cooler sandwich plate
robinj66 - 7/11/07 at 06:02 PM

I'm about to fit a thermostatic sandwich plate but suddenly I'm unsure if it makes any difference which way round it goes - ie, which face touches the block.

Both outlets seem to access the internal plates and the oil filter will sit in it's normal position. One side of the plate has provision for a rubber seal as per the filter but it struck me that the face mating with the block should also have a rubber seal.

Any advice as to which way round it should go


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robinj66 - 7/11/07 at 06:07 PM

and the other side

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bimbleuk - 7/11/07 at 08:20 PM

I'm using a very similar sandwich plate.

Yes there should be a rubber seal between the engine block and the sandwich. So the rubber seal on the sandwich plate should face the engine. The rubber seal on the filter mates to the slightly concave face on the sandwich plate.

So the first picture is the oil filter side. The second picture mates to the engine block.

[Edited on 7/11/07 by bimbleuk]

robinj66 - 7/11/07 at 10:10 PM

Thanks - that's excellent

The browny/orange thing in the corner of the photo is the seal - think I'll be using one from a filter

Chippy - 7/11/07 at 11:00 PM

Just for your info. if you don't know, thats an oil cooler from a Cossie V6, and it should be attached to the block with a special hollow bolt that has a threaded section to screw the filter onto. If you already know this then I'll get me coat. Cheers Ray

MikeRJ - 7/11/07 at 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by Chippy
Just for your info. if you don't know, thats an oil cooler from a Cossie V6


Glad someone mentioned it! As it stands it has no thermostatic action at all, it's simply an oil cooler that is plumbed into the engine coolant circuit.

robinj66 - 8/11/07 at 08:52 AM

Ray
Thanks for the info - I have got the hollow fixing bolt.

Was sold to me as thermostat sadwich plate to fit Pinto but I assumed that it would fit my V6 cologne anyway.

Mike
Are you saying I need to connect the two outlets to the coolant - I was intending to connect them to an oil cooler matrix.

MikeRJ - 8/11/07 at 03:14 PM

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Originally posted by robinj66
Mike
Are you saying I need to connect the two outlets to the coolant - I was intending to connect them to an oil cooler matrix.


Yes, this is an oil to water cooler. You could connect an oil cooler matrix up to it, but you won't get any oil through it and it won't be doing any cooling! Look at how crusty the two coolant pipe barbs are, if they had oil going though them they would be nice, shiny metal still.

This is what a thermostatic sandwich plate for a remote oil cooler looks like:

Chippy - 8/11/07 at 10:55 PM

On the Cossie that is connected to the heater hose take of from the back of the thermostat housing. If yours is the 2.8, or 2.9 standard lump, then you can't do that, so will need to work out how to connect it into the water system. Problem is that they aren't all that good, far better to fit a proper cooler and sandwich plate as Mike has shown, together with a stat in the system. Cheers Ray