help i think my oil cooler or something on the drivers side is missing??

arracing · Jan 18, 2002

Okay i just bought a 92 Plymouth laser AWD turbo 5 spd. It needed a new clutch so i took it to the tranny shop and while it was their they told me something is missing by the drivers side wheel. They think its the oil cooler. Basically right now there are 2 pipes coming out their with bolts plugging them up. Im not sure what they were supposed to go to? i called up a dsm shop and they told me oil coolers were only put in the 90 models and not 92 so what is going on with my car and what am i missing?

Please help,
Randy

barney · Jan 19, 2002

The oil cooler has been removed.

Josh90TSI · Jan 19, 2002

Yeah they are right, only the 90's have an oil cooler. Yours should not have one. What kind of piping is it, and where is it exactly? We need a little more info than "by the drivers side wheel". Can you be more specific?

Josh

barney · Jan 19, 2002

Josh90TSI said:
Yeah they are right, only the 90's have an oil cooler. Yours should not have one.
Josh

I drive a '92 AWD Laser and it most assuredly has an oil cooler. The two plugged hoses are coolant hoses that once connected to the oil cooler.

Tevenor · Jan 19, 2002

90's have an air-to-oil cooler. Its a mini intercooler with 2 lines leading from the oil filter bracket. The 91+ had a water-to-oil cooler. It looks like a round donut and has 2 hard water lines running into it.

barney · Jan 19, 2002

Those hard lines connect to the rest of the cooling system via two hoses.

arracing · Jan 19, 2002

okay so its a water to oil cooler then. Anyone know where i can get this cheap?

Taboo · Jan 20, 2002

New ones are expensive as hell, try www.mitsubishigraveyard.com .

laser92awd · Jan 20, 2002

Was the car running??!?!

I wonder what they did to stop the oil from leaking everywhere without the water/oil cooler... Does it have NT parts on it right now?

A oil cooler looks like this... The bracket should still be there, but I wonder what they did with it to make the oil filter stay there...??

arracing · Jan 20, 2002

their are 2 big bolts pluging the metal pipes. The two pipes are right next to each other side by side and same dimater of a little less than a inch. i saw that picture of the oil cooler in the last post and im wondering if that is the missing thing cause i dont see how it would attach itself. I dunno. Yes the car was running and the engine temp seemed fine but i havent really driven it for a long period of time cause its still a work in progress. My Clutch slave cylinder is bad so my clutch is slipping so i havent been able to drive it more than down a street.

95GST · Jan 20, 2002

I think I know why, the probably broke the oil cooler and they just removed it.

A new one is very expensive. ($200?)

E-mail me I have a spare one that is working perfectly for sale. It's easy to install. eclipseturbo16g@hotmail.com

laser92awd · Jan 20, 2002

Sounds very reasonable... it's "optional" on a car you never boost on I suppose, heh. It's easy to screw up the oil cooler by overtorquing the center bolt pipe. The oil cooler is connected to the coolant lines by rubber hoses, which I suppose were removed. However one end of the rubber hose on a 1G is like 3 inches away from the cooler! The other rubber hose is like 1 ft or so long and runs downwards from the metal pipe that goes along the head IIRC.

I think I was quoted upwhere near $400 from the dealer!

Luckily I found one, for much cheaper, but unfortunately it didn't solve my oil leak problem...

laser92awd · Jan 20, 2002

arracing said:
their are 2 big bolts pluging the metal pipes. The two pipes are right next to each other side by side and same dimater of a little less than a inch.

You know, this is beginning to sound like power steering pump stuff if it's 1" !!! But I wish there was a picture to help us figure it out... heh

Josh90TSI · Jan 20, 2002

90's have an air-to-oil cooler. Its a mini intercooler with 2 lines leading from the oil filter bracket. The 91+ had a water-to-oil cooler. It looks like a round donut and has 2 hard water lines running into it.

Ok my bad. I probably should have worded that differently. I know what I meant, but thats not what I typed.

:beer: + forums = doh!

haha sorry about that.

Josh

arracing · Jan 21, 2002

sweet car pic josh.

about the oil cooler, i will try and get a pic up here tommorrow it will be a top view of the bolts but you will still see what im talking about i hope.

Later fellas,
Randy

help i think my oil cooler or something on the drivers side is missing??

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