Thread: Deleting fuel cooler.

Originally Posted by FNQLR

Anyone here deleted it? Any issues?

mine has failed for the last time.

Redoing the plumbing and fuel lines as we speak.
This pos is going in the bin. The engine bay will be so much neater.
Hopefully the old girl won't explode.

I think JohnP38 did.

Just after a sanity check on the revised cooling circuit...



I'll be blanking off the oil cooler outlet and have removed the behind engine pipe and hose.

The two lower fuel cooler outlets of the rad will both be blanked off.

The suction side of the heater will join with the now hanging hose from the overflow tank tee (that goes to the pump inlet circuit, I think)


I think this will work all ok - disregarding the issues of going without a fuel cooler / heater

Cheers

Fuel cooler or EGR cooler?

I have the egr cooler removed and that included removing the pipe from oilcooler and from the back of the engine.
Fuel cooler I still have plumbed and good.

Originally Posted by Dervish.

Fuel cooler or EGR cooler?

I have the egr cooler removed and that included removing the pipe from oilcooler and from the back of the engine.
Fuel cooler I still have plumbed and good.

Fuel cooler. The egr went a long time ago.

Mines a '99 td5. It just had the uncooled egr setup.

Originally Posted by FNQLR

Anyone here deleted it? Any issues?

mine has failed for the last time.

Redoing the plumbing and fuel lines as we speak.
This pos is going in the bin. The engine bay will be so much neater.
Hopefully the old girl won't explode.

Even if it doesnt explode IMO deleting the fuel cooler is a VERY bad ideea on a Td5 ... it will become powerless once the FT gets above 75*C and without the cooler it will definitely go above... the ECU reduces the injected quantity based on FT input too also your fuel pump will fail more often getting too hot fuel on the return, especially if the level in the tank is low

I'd not do such huge mistake if i was you, you can fit a square type cooler like on the late facelifts with a bit of piping mod and that one is bullet proof, it'll last more than the vehicle

Originally Posted by sierrafery

Even if it doesnt explode IMO deleting the fuel cooler is a VERY bad ideea on a Td5 ... it will become powerless once the FT gets above 75*C and without the cooler it will definitely go above... the ECU reduces the injected quantity based on FT input too also your fuel pump will fail more often getting too hot fuel on the return, especially if the level in the tank is low

I'd not do such huge mistake if i was you, you can fit a square type cooler like on the late facelifts with a bit of piping mod and that one is bullet proof, it'll last more than the vehicle

-Thanks mate, didn't realize there was a better version. I'll hunt one down.

Originally Posted by FNQLR

-Thanks mate, didn't realize there was a better version. I'll hunt one down.

search for PIB000080, even if it's used not much to fail on it as long as it wasnt physically hurt, a friend of mine addapted a D3 cooler (PIB500052) which is cheaper, a T piece is needed instead of the old cooler's coolant outlet, i have such a cooler prepared for when my original fails

yep, dumb idea to remove the fuel cooler.

I like the idea of these air cooled units. Seems like the lowest the LR heat exchanger type will go is ~ 70c