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I'm probably not the only one who has snapped a wheel bolt or stripped the hub installing a wheel bolt. My tire shop has caused me lots of problems trying to torque to specs so now I just take the wheel off the vehicle and take it in to them and re-install it myself. I found a solution to the rear h...

One of the experienced guys on here said something like, "the flow/volume is what's important". Now, we all know there has to be pressure as well, over 20 psi for the oil squirters on the turbo engines, and the Bentley says something like 29 psi minimum at 2000 rpm, so for me it's both flo...

That's a great idea! No overspray! No excessive masking! Obviously lots of prep work and sanding, but that has to be done anyway. The link to the other site shows that it can be finished off nicely also.

My observations after using the stock Volvo steel lines with 1/2 inch flexible hoses (and the drilled out attachment pipe and sandwich plate) is that there's definitely enough flow to keep both the oil and coolant at a stable 80 - 85 Celsius when the outside air temperature is below 80 degrees Fahre...

This next picture shows, from left to right: a hose off a Mercedes 300D turbo oil line with a huge 1/2 inch ID, next is the stock Volvo steel line and finally the custom made hydraulic hose with the approx. 3/8 inch ID. The Mercedes hose and fitting will attach to the oil cooler and I intend on usin...

Here's the update on increasing flow through the oil cooler system. The stock Volvo sandwich plate has approx. 3/8 inch orifices. The oil is ALWAYS flowing through the Volvo plate, hot or cold. I drilled and dremmeld all three holes out to a little less than 1/2 inch. You can only see one of the ori...

That's a good question and I don't have an answer. The thermo-valve closes but I'm guessing the oil still drains back from the cooler into the sump, past the vacuum created by the valve being closed or through the valve before it closes from cooling. What I've been doing is checking the oil level im...

I'm beginning to think everything has already been done on our little diesel's.....if I just searched enough I would find it! Part of my reduced oil flow problem is I had some hydraulic hoses made using 7/16 inch hose but the hydraulic hose end fittings were only about 1/4 inch inside diameter. See ...

I'm refitting the oil hoses from the Volvo sandwich plate to the cooler and will have photo's and specs soon. The original hoses were to restrictive and didn't allow enough flow, even though it did work. I'll have a low budget solution which uses hoses from a Mercedes 300D turbo together with 1/2 in...

Carlos, I have A/C, so I know it works with the condenser. As with any install there's always a few tweaks I can still make and one would be to have a 20 or 30 degree (bend) fitting off the sandwich plate so the oil hose doesn't rub against the fan shroud.

Oil filter location photo, this is the correct one.


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Part three of three submission. Sandwich plate hose routing . I don't have pictures of the two hoses I had made to replace the shorter ones off the Volvo, but I had them made six inches longer than the steel hoses. I used the original Volvo hoses to go from the cooler and attached the lengthened hos...

Part two submission. Cooler location photos . I had to cut the front bracket to get it to fit but it fits in there well and air is drawn past it with the cooling fan when not driving on the highway. The horn has to be relocated but I used the reinforced horn mount to bolt the top of the cooler to. T...

My goal was to retain the oil/coolant heat exchanger while installing a remote oil cooler. There was no way to do it without relocating the oil filter. I have to split this into two or three uploads to get it all posted. The result turned out quite will and I've run it for over 1,000 miles to make s...