ANyone have a idea for the OIL COOLER??454

[andrew king]

I need to replace the oil cooler on my 1 ton truck with a 454. The dealer wants $280.00 for a new one anyone knoe of a aftermarket bolt in replacement ??? Since the engine is new I wanted to at least clean it out or replace it so I figured one of you guys would have an answer thanks. Andy

[1972C10]

Ive got one its used but is in good shape it came off my 85 3/4 Ton 454 Let me know if you want it its for sale on a really old post on the board With pics althou i doubt you can find it.

[78SilveradoSWB]

Can't you use a transmission cooler in place of a oil cooler. If so you can buy one of those HD B&M tranny coolers for under $75.

[1972C10]

I woulndt think you could use a tranmission cooler the inlet out ports are only 3/8 or 11/32 My factory oil cooler has like 1/2 lines

[SanitysBane]

use mobil 1 oil, in the 94 corvettes with regular oil the oil temp was getting so high that there was going to have to be an external oil cooler, but there was no room for it, so the Mobil guys told them to put in Mobil 1 and it dropped the oil temp 20 degrees, also all of the major high performance cars all use mobil 1, just a thought.

[andrew king]

Im defiantely interested in a replacement cooler. Did the one you have come off of a running motor? Since my motor spun a bearing Im not sure if there would be a ton of metal and crap in mine. I tried cleaning it out with solvent and pressure would this work? I just dont want it to destroy the new motor YA KNOW?? Also I heard that Mobil 1 is not recomended for big block applications anyone know anything about that???

[1972C10]

It came off a running 454 I removed the big block to put in a better gas mileage small block And didnt need it anymore.

[1972C10]

here is a pic of it It has been cleaned since then .

[SanitysBane]

mobil 1 is for everything! we had a big block that had sat around at idle for very very long periods of time, we reringed it just so that it would run, sorta so we wouldn't have to trailer it from arkansas to texas, well 60K miles later and mobil 1 it finally spun a rod bearing, that engine had so much piston slap you could hear it standing in front of the car, ran like a champ though.