Thread: oil cooler hose

Nope, the pipe is buggered. It's a known issue that that pipe that side often lets go on the swage.

Order a new one and in the mean time you can put a couple of jubilee clips on there to hold it on. Do them *tight* when you do it.

In fact, you may as well order a pair and do both sides. If you can live without the car immediately you could go a local hose place (pirtek and the like) and get it repaired to probably as good or better (probably) than new.

And if it's not the swage that let go but the fitting onto the oil cooler then while it is a push fit, it shouldn't come off and again is probably buggered.

Thanks Steve... is there an after market one or do I have to get an original ?

AFAIK they didnt flair the pipe, so as the rubber hardens and loosens eventually it just falls off,, there isnt a lot of fluid pressure,, maybe the reason they saved themselves twenty cents by not flairing the end.. really bad engineering,,,