Oil Cooler

[IanB]

Hi all

I have recently fitted my oil cooler to my 32 GTR however something is not right.

Originally I hooked the lines up as such:

Inner Gallery on Block to Inner Gallery on Filter Relocator

Out Gallery on Relocator to Cooler

Cooler to Outer Gallery on Block

this resulted in oil coming up through the cooler into the outer gallery on the relocator (wtf?)

So after much ado and confusion and checking and rechecking, I in the end hooked the lines up as such:

Outer Gallery on Block to Inner gallery on Relocator

Outer Gallery on Relocator to Cooler

Cooler to Inner Gallery on Block

This has resulted in oil coming up through the inner gallery of the filter, where its supposed to come from AFAIK.

What is confusing me is that oil seems to be flowing the wrong way out of the block??? The oil is coming out of the outer gallery on the block which is just plain strange.

Is this how its supposed to be? Am I a dumbass? Can anyone provide any insight?

Thanks

Ian

[GTR32GUS]

An oil filter flows in the outside and out through the middle

[IanB]

Ahh snap misread your post dude...

So it flows from the outside in? I thought it was the other way...

[Abo Bob]

That got me too when I fitted mine.

[TurboX]

Its the only way it can flow because of the rubber plate covering all the outer holes on the inside of the filter.

The oil pressure pushes the rubber out of the way and flows in through the filter element then out the centre hole.

I actually use a remote filter for scrubbing the oil mist out of the cam covers before going back in the intake box as per legal, but first put it around the wrong way and laid a smoke screen James Bond would have been proud of! Then I also drilled some holes in the rubber as well so no back pressure at all.