Cheap Power Steering Cooler!

[HarryH3]

Yet another cheap junkyard solution I thought I would share...

http://www.angelfire.com/super/ThunderTruck/tech_articles/power_steering_cooler.htm

 

[mud390]

Very nice!

Kris

 

[6.2LTrailblazer84]

That's awsome. Very inventive!

 

[tRustyK5]

Great tip Harry!

Rene

 

[darkshadow]

its too bad caddy dident make a 4x4 with all the stuff we rob off them it would have been great!!!

 

[LongIslander26]

Cheap Cooler

Could probably be used as an engine oil cooler as well.

 

[HarryH3]

Could probably be used as an engine oil cooler as well.

The tube is only about 1/4-inch. The tube on engine oil coolers are usually more like 1/2-inch. I wouldn't trust it to flow enough volume as an engine oil cooler.

 

[LongIslander26]

Hard to tell in the picture.

OK, it's hard to tell how big the lines are in the pic, but Dammit! I'm going to cool something if it kills me!

 

[HarryH3]

I'm going to cool something if it kills me!

Probably a serious requirement in Arizona!

 

[jhellwig]

I has a suburban that had a powersteering cooler stock mounted on the front side of the cross member. That one looks like it would work better though.

 

[bigjbear]

Thanks Harry. Anymore info, fitting sizes, other makes, ect...

 

[HarryH3]

That's the only car I've found them on. The fittings take standard sized power steering return hose.

I just wander around junkyards looking at every vehicle there, to see what might work for other things.

If you need even more cooling capacity, check out the factory trans coolers that Ford used on lots of pickups and vans in the 80's. They're a 4x12 version of the stacked plate cooler, with compression fittings. I think they're kinda small for a trans cooler, but might make a nice power steering cooler for those running rams.

 

[afroman006]

I parted out a C/k series chevy C&C dually and it had a PS cooler mounted vertically on the side of the grill as well.

 

[cbbr]

Nice tip. Thanks.

 

[diesel4me]

Fords have them too!

I've seen similar ones on GM trucks factory,as well as ford pickups too...I wonder if a few feet of copper tubing wound into a spring shape would be just as effective??...

I know of one guy(our plumber) who was tired of freezing in his truck--I told him to put baseboard heating panels from a house in his Step Van for more heat in the winter!-(we used them in our ice racer cars on the dash for "defrosters"and heat!)---he said it worked so well,he had to put shut off valves in the hoses so he would not get TOO hot!--I bet a few feet of those mounted in the airflow outside the truck would dissapate a lot of engine heat!

 

[ntsqd]

Check out the Aux cooler used on late 80's Ford trucks. Stacked plate design that is just a little bit bigger. Have one on the Sub for the PS system.

 

[steve_kibbe]

nice find, I know where I'll be going the weekend

 

[91GMCSuburban]

thanks,

 

[sled_dog]

my burb had one as well, but it was just 2 passes of steel tube run on the underside of the core support, no fins.

 

[walla2k5]

Nice find,thanks...