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if you are worried about getting the water out of your oil then keep in
mind, 212 F is the boiling point of water at sea level, at 10,000 ft it
drops to 196 F, but the real deal, someone already pointed out: elsewhere
in the engine the oil temp exceeds what is on your gauge.
> Time: 08:05:31 AM PST US
> From: Mark Merrell <mark.merrell@ymail.com>
> Subject: Re: RV8-List: Re: Oil Cooler Mount Cracking...
>
> You really do want your oil temp to get above 212 degrees to boil out the w
> ater & condensation that builds up.
> -
> Mark Merrell
> RV-8 Empennage
>
> --- On Tue, 10/19/10, Bill Judge <bjudge@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Bill Judge <bjudge@gmail.com>
> Subject: RV8-List: Re: Oil Cooler Mount Cracking...
>
>
> I posted this in response on the RV list, it is one way to avoid the cracki
> ng, figured it was worth posting here:
>
>
> Matt,
> I had the same type of cracking on my oil cooler after about 60 hrs. -I g
> ot rid of my standard oil cooler and used a setrab 10 row with swivel angle
> fittings. -
> http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?form_prod_id=276,587_823&action=produ
> ct
> http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?form_prod_id=276,587_3397&action=prod
> uct
> It comes with straight in AN fittings but I swapped them out with one 90 an
> d one 45 because that seemed to be the direction that the lines wanted to e
> nter the cooler. -I was able to used the standard lines and just make som
> e mods to accept the setrab cooler. -I also beefed up the bracing around
> the cooler with 0.125 angle rather than whatever is standard.
>
>
> The cooler is about 1/3 the size of standard and so there is much less weig
> ht hanging on the baffles. -The firewall solution works fine but I really
> didn't want to have the hoses "working" with the vibrations/shaking of the
> engine.
>
>
> 550 hrs now and no cracking and my oil temps never get above 200F.
>
>
> The best part is that I was able to sell the standard oil cooler on ebay fo
> r enough to cover the cost of the new cooler and fittings.
>
>
> Bill Judge
> N84WJ RV-8, 550 hrs
> rv-8.blogspot.com
>
>
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