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

[olorin]

Originally Posted by Guillaume

Thanks for sharing. Just to be clear, what you call the OE heater hose (which you cut) is the Forester hose, right?

No, its the BRZ heater hose that connects to the BRZ pipe-- its the hose that comes out of the firewall between the strut braces. The forester pipe that you replace has the 90 degree bend in it and tends to kink the stock heater hose (5/8 inch) when you reattach it.

[Guillaume]

Ok, thanks for the clarification. Having that installed on Friday.

[CARNZ]

i didnt use loctite on mine.

i wrapped some teflon sealing tape on the threads and installed the fitting to the bloc

[M1K3]

This is good stuff: Loctite - PST Thread Sealant 567 High Temperature

[Trac Toy]

Yeah use thread sealant/Teflon tape. Loctite isn't a thread sealant.

[Guillaume]

Had mine fitted a few days ago as planned. Thanks again @CARNZ for putting this DIY together.



Looking forward to testing this around Spa later this week.

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Trac Toy

Yeah use thread sealant/Teflon tape. Loctite isn't a thread sealant.

It is if it's dry.

-alex

Edit: I know it's not the best thread sealant available. Teflon is better. Normal Loctite ThreadLocker can be used if you allow it to dry completely prior to application... but since there's so many different products that carry the Loctite brand name, it's best to distinguish clearly.

FWIW, many people use Loctite ThreadLocker (dried) on brake bleeder valves.

[Trac Toy]

Originally Posted by mav1178

It is if it's dry.

-alex

Edit: I know it's not the best thread sealant available. Teflon is better. Normal Loctite ThreadLocker can be used if you allow it to dry completely prior to application... but since there's so many different products that carry the Loctite brand name, it's best to distinguish clearly.

FWIW, many people use Loctite ThreadLocker (dried) on brake bleeder valves.

true but that isn't being used as a sealant, the tapered seat inside the caliper is the seal, the loctite is just to be sure it doesn't come loose.

we don't use anything on our bleeder screws on the race car. When they are tight, they don't leak and they don't come loose.

thread lock and thread sealant are two different things for two different purposes...

use what you want, it's your car, hell silicone will seal threads too...

[mav1178]

Originally Posted by Trac Toy

thread lock and thread sealant are two different things for two different purposes...

use what you want, it's your car, hell silicone will seal threads too...

I know, but to say "don't use Loctite" is misleading, since the picture posted above your post is a Loctite-brand thread sealant.

-alex

[TaroYamada]

Hello

Please someone tell me hose size in metric for t-piece??

[indy]

Originally Posted by TaroYamada

Please someone tell me hose size in metric for t-piece??

~17-14-17mm
you can use MR958633 from Mitsubishi.

[Model Citizen]

Looking at this pic of the cusco unit it uses banjos. I'm terrible about the details of fluid pressure, flow restrictions etc. But keeping the diameter of the banjo bolt holes in mind how viable would just taking the throttle body coolant hoses to run into the cooler plate be?






heres a pic of the 2 hoses, one is at the bung on the crossover coolant pipe the other is the black hose running along top of it to the black of the block. Would be super easy, and clean just to remove the one at the bottom of the throttle body, and just unhook the other, then replace both with lines running to the oil cooler.

[Kostamojen]

they are about 1/2 the diameter of the lines going into the oil cooler. Thats too big of a difference to me. Do the math on the area of a circle when you decrease the size of the diameter that much...

[Model Citizen]

Originally Posted by Kostamojen

they are about 1/2 the diameter of the lines going into the oil cooler. Thats too big of a difference to me. Do the math on the area of a circle when you decrease the size of the diameter that much...

I get that the throttle body lines are smaller. I don't have the new fxt cooler here to reference and I don't feel like crawling under my older model forester in the dark. But from this thread at least one of the hoses is 3/8. That doesn't seem too far from the throttle body diameter.

Those cusco banjo bolts look pretty small too, let alone the bends. Hence picture of the cusco kit linked for reference.

Assuming choked flow works similarly wether the restriction is 1 inch or 2 feet than does the diameter really matter significantly? I'm far from an expert on that sort of thing, my last college level physics class was about 15 years ago and a lot of brains were lost in between