Ahoy

The Wolf fought me very hard getting the radiators out. And it's still fighting me over the oil cooler.

(The Wolf is a 1994 XJS 6.0.)

I put my big dick spanners on it and went to town. Result: brass nuts rounded and oil cooler bent. It's alu so it's now scrap, if I understand correctly about surface fracturing and work hardening in alu.

The part codes are CCC6625, 26 and 27 and they are discontinued because of course they are.

So I think I need to fit an aftermarket one.

Anyone else done this? Is there anything unusual I need to know? (E.g. is the oil pressure higher than most cars, etc)

Can I make up the feed and return pipes myself with amateur garage tools? (Don't mind buying a tool but not really specialist kit.)

Anyone know the hose spec for the oil cooler or the thread where it goes into the block?

 

An aftermarket oil cooler will work just fine. making up the hoses can be done by any hydraulic hose place - they do it all the time for farm equipment, building and mining equipment etc etc. I would take the old fittings where they attach to the car's oil system and ask the place to reuse them.