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Removed oil cooler lines, bad?

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84mudmachine

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I have a 1994 gmc 1500 pickup that had a oil cooler that ran to the radiator and was leaking. I have replace the lines, but they started leaking at the connection at the filter adapter. I went ahead and removed it and put in a standard adapter that allows the filter to go on the the block directly. It's mainly a daily driver to work and back, and tow a boat in the summer a few times. Am I going to notice anything by remove this?
 
As long as you've replaced the cooler adapter with a standard adapter you'll be fine. Many GM engines for years never came with an engine oil cooler and they've went many thousands of miles. The cooler does help keep oil temps down slightly because of the cooler but also because of more oil capacity. I wouldn't worry though. Unless you have an oil temp gauge you won't even notice anything anyway.
 
Get pipe plugs and plug the holes for the lines: My Blazer has an adapter with factory plugs, while my Burb has the cooler.
 
If you plug the cooler hose fitting in the adapter then the oil must bypass through the bypass and you will starve the engine of oil. The adapter is different if there isn't an oil cooler being used. If your adapter is for cooler lines and they are plugged someone removed the oil cooler and plugged them, it did not come from the factory like that.
 
Is this the part you would need to replace the oil cooler/filter adapter, in order to delete the oil cooler? I can't post a link until I have 15 posts, but the summit part number is SME-2015. Ok, I can't even post a picture until 15 posts.
 
I sprung a leak in my oil cooler on one of my k5's about 6 years ago, and that was the last one I have ever run. I caught it after it blew the engine, but it didn't seize up I was able to rebuild it.
 
What if you were to take off the cooler lines, and run a loop of rubber hose? All this would really do is get rid of the crappy kinked lines and cooler while not having to mess with the filter adapter.
 
why wouldn't you just remove it, and not bother with the rubber hoses? I'm not sure I would be willing to trust the life line of my engine to a 'rubber house'... :eek1::eek1::eek1:
 
Touche. "Hydraulic Lines," or whatever is suitable. The only reason I made that suggestion is one of my metal lines is leaking bad. It would be a bandaid until I got the right parts to delete the oil cooler. Do you know if the part I posted earlier is the right one?
 
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pull it out - millions of vehicles run fine without oil coolers. IMO transmission lines are more crucial.

I had steel lines, and a rock flipped up, if I remember correctly, and put a hole in it. I was VERY lucky I didn't seize the engine. sorry - I am giving a biased opinion because I hate the stupid things for obvious reasons.
 
I will remove it once I find the right part. So far no one has confirmed whether or not I can buy it off the shelf or swipe one of a non oil cooled engine.
 
A rubber hose is fine as that is what feeds the factory oil cooler. As previously mentioned: Do not just plug the holes, that is bad. Either eliminate the adapter and put the correct, non-oil cooler adapter on it or just run a short 6" piece of hose to join the inlet/outlet of the adapter. Use double hose clamps if it makes you feel better.
 
hmm, all this work mentioned, for a couple of dollars in parts/seals....

i'd have just got the replacement seals and fixed it.
 
I just had my engine rebuit by a engine builder, he said he does not reccomend hooking up the old coolant lines and all he did was plug the out puts at the oil pump. I have had no difference in temp and I agree, it would be just one more thing to go wrong.
 
you wouldn't notice a dif in temp, only if you monitor oil temp.. and very few do...
 
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