I'd like to add an oil cooler to my home built splitter. Can I plumb in a transmission oil cooler? Will it handle the pressure on the return line? Will it add enough cooling to be worth the effort?
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Any material that the oil flows through will dissipate heat. Any oil cooler will work also regardless whether it is large or small. However a small cooler will have to have a bypass system so that not all the oil will be forced to flow through the cooler. I have been incorporating a cooling system to my construction which turns out that it is not too difficult. The more cooling available will insure that you are not running oil at 220 F. Thanks
Best to put a piece of black tape on what you are trying to measure, and shoot that with the laser. If you are going by a sight glass theremometer, those temps can easily vary by 10 degrees, so you know. Mine will read 20 degrees difference from the temp sensor that's in my oil cooler. Half throttle has a lot to do with it, as you're not getting the flow you could have, therefore less heat.
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I put a oil cooler on my home built splitter a few years ago. I purchased the real deal oil cooler from Bailey, a hydraulic store in Knoxville TN. It will handle the high flow, has a 12v fan on it, and is small, didn't take up a lot of space on the splitter. When I built the splitter I knew nothing about hydraulics. I built a 22gpm splitter with about a 3 gallon reservoir. It worked like a charm but it got hot enough that you couldn't hold your hand on it, but I thought that was normal. It ran that way for 20 years without any problems. Several years ago I doubled the size of the tank, up to 6 gal. Still way to small and running hot. About 5 years ago I put the oil cooler on it and a oil temp gauge. The oil went from can't touch this ? degrees , down to 110 degrees. Still running strong 30 + years on it. If it's running hot put a cooler on it.View attachment 754142
Just saying that you can get some false readings with that, even if it's painted black.Everything is painted black, I don't think black tape is going to change the outcome.
Would love to see more pictures of your VW splitter....
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