Installed/How-To: 2014 Forester XT OEM Oil Cooler(pics!)

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I know this is a lot to ask but can someone take the bolt out and take a picture of it next to a tape measure?

I'm getting the STI bolt today or tomorrow and want to make sure it's very close in dimensions.

[Philly758]

Originally Posted by post_break

I know this is a lot to ask but can someone take the bolt out and take a picture of it next to a tape measure?

I'm getting the STI bolt today or tomorrow and want to make sure it's very close in dimensions.

I am curious about this too. Any luck getting a measurement?

I currently have an oil cooler with a sandwich plate and this is what it says for the bolt "lengthened 20mm x 1.5 filter extension". Any chance the STI bolt is 20mm? (http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/p...andwich_Plates)

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Originally Posted by Philly758

I am curious about this too. Any luck getting a measurement?

I currently have an oil cooler with a sandwich plate and this is what it says for the bolt "lengthened 20mm x 1.5 filter extension". Any chance the STI bolt is 20mm? (http://www.racerpartswholesale.com/p...andwich_Plates)

I will have the bolt today hopefully. Can someone please take theirs out and measure? Please lol.
@CARNZ

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by post_break

I will have the bolt today hopefully. Can someone please take theirs out and measure? Please lol.
@CARNZ

I'll take a pic when I get home. I have all the parts but have not installed it due to lack of downtime.

-alex

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Originally Posted by mav1178

I'll take a pic when I get home. I have all the parts but have not installed it due to lack of downtime.

-alex

Awesome! Can you take some pics with the tape measure or just measure it. I didn't receive the STI bolt today ugh. It better show up tomorrow...

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by post_break

Awesome! Can you take some pics with the tape measure or just measure it. I didn't receive the STI bolt today ugh. It better show up tomorrow...

Will be both. In fact, I'll take a pic of the cooler assembly itself too with dimensions.

-alex

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I ordered the Forester bolt from Heurburger, even though it was a super pain in the ass. They were one of the few who still have it in stock. I don't think the STI bolt will work but in the event that it does I'm sure I can just sell the Forester bolt here locally. I can also do a comparison as well.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by post_break

Awesome! Can you take some pics with the tape measure or just measure it. I didn't receive the STI bolt today ugh. It better show up tomorrow...

Originally Posted by post_break

I ordered the Forester bolt from Heurburger, even though it was a super pain in the ass. They were one of the few who still have it in stock. I don't think the STI bolt will work but in the event that it does I'm sure I can just sell the Forester bolt here locally. I can also do a comparison as well.

Uh... after re-reading your post several times, are you asking for a pic of the stock FA20 bolt, or the Forester lengthened bolt?

Here's the Forester bolt, part #21317AA070:


For shits and giggles I measured the cooler assembly itself:




These last two are what sticks out of the inside of the cooler assembly (i.e. what threads into the block):



Hope this helps. If you need a pic of the OEM FA20 bolt, yeah can't help you there just yet...

-alex

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Originally Posted by mav1178

Uh... after re-reading your post several times, are you asking for a pic of the stock FA20 bolt, or the Forester lengthened bolt?



Hope this helps. If you need a pic of the OEM FA20 bolt, yeah can't help you there just yet...

-alex

These help big time.

Here is what the STI bolt looks like. It's gonna be close... I've already verified with a friend the thread pitch is correct.

[The Slow One]

Its a subaru and a japanese car. they stay with metric.. lol. The oil coolers are the same. Its just that the forester has a little barrier to prevent a messy oil change. You do know that the cusco kit uses a sti oil cooler/warmer right?

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Originally Posted by The Slow One

Its a subaru and a japanese car. they stay with metric.. lol. The oil coolers are the same. Its just that the forester has a little barrier to prevent a messy oil change. You do know that the cusco kit uses a sti oil cooler/warmer right?

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Yeah they use an STI oil cooler, but until I have the STI bolt I won't know that it fits with the forester oil cooler. Better safe than sorry. And if the STI bolt fits, this will be fantastic news since they are much easier to come by.

[The Slow One]

it will fit if its the same metric size as the forester one. the only difference between the two is the little barrier on the forester cooler. if its a completely different metric size bolt, then obviously, it wouldn't even bolt into the car with the oil cooler. I'm not sure why subaru changes the part number for it but its different between every generation turbo subaru... yet all the parts are interchangeable.

[CARNZ]

Hopefully it all works out the same, so that way we have alternate part numbers to order since the supply is exhausted at the moment.

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STI Bolt doesn't fit. It's a quarter inch too long. Now I could trim a quarter inch of thread off of the end that goes to the block, but that's half ass. I'm going to send it back. I tried to install it but because the threads stop it doesn't tighten down the oil cooler.