head/oil cooler update (argh!)

[gooddane66 at yahoo.com (Phil Boeye)]

So I drained the oil and yanked the oil cooler.  Oil
was normal and not diluted; hence, no coolant to speak
of what being forced into the oil system.  It *was*
oil into the cooling system, however.

Oil cooler - just no way to check this aspect of it,
because it would be the oil being forced into the
coolant passage and that is high pressure.  I filled
the coolant passage with old coolant but none would
leak out of the oil passages.  Not surprised; that
would take some pressure and I can't provide that.

Cleaned up the head and block deck - they were pretty
awesome.  Head gasket was primo.  Could not find any
cracks in the head and checked for warpage - NONE.  It
checked out very nice, as a matter of fact.  Not sure
what else a shop would do to the head to check it?

So I am left to think it MUST be the oil cooler.  What
else could it be?  I'd really like to get a
known-to-be-good, used oil cooler and slap that up
there.  Not sure if a shop can check out an oil cooler
or not for integrity.  Not really even worth the money
to have that checked, I wouldn't think.


	
		
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