R380 cooler

**Tins** · 15th February 2016, 08:45 AM

A few years ago the R380 in the D1 failed comprehensively due to losing all it's oil. It was leaking from the cooler pipe. My son decided he didn't want that to happen again when we fitted the Ashcroft, so he left the cooler off.

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Now I've got the car in many pieces I'm thinking of reinstating the cooler. The pipes are all still there. And I have this thing.

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Provided I fit it up properly so it doesn't leak, what do people think? Is is worth it? I guess I'd need to flush the pipes and the cooler.

**Tins** · 16th February 2016, 02:45 PM

No bites?

**roverrescue** · 24th February 2016, 01:46 PM

I think cooling the small capacity R380 is a necessity in hotter areas of Australia.
Instead of troublesome hardlines and factory cooler I used the valve block you have pictured and made up hydraulic hose fittings (barbs with crimps) running to an aftermarket cooler situated beneath the front crossmember

With your history of failure Id be wanting to make sure the cooler circuit is perfect

S

**Tins** · 25th February 2016, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by roverrescue

I think cooling the small capacity R380 is a necessity in hotter areas of Australia.
Instead of troublesome hardlines and factory cooler I used the valve block you have pictured and made up hydraulic hose fittings (barbs with crimps) running to an aftermarket cooler situated beneath the front crossmember

With your history of failure Id be wanting to make sure the cooler circuit is perfect

S

Yes, I had considered that. It has the added advantage of not bringing more heat back to the rad.

And, yes, the gearbox in the car now is a suffix L built by Ashcroft's, so it deserves looking after.

**Tins** · 27th February 2016, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by roverrescue

I think cooling the small capacity R380 is a necessity in hotter areas of Australia.
Instead of troublesome hardlines and factory cooler I used the valve block you have pictured and made up hydraulic hose fittings (barbs with crimps) running to an aftermarket cooler situated beneath the front crossmember

With your history of failure Id be wanting to make sure the cooler circuit is perfect

S

Do you recall the type of cooler you got?

**rick130** · 27th February 2016, 11:39 AM

Ditto what Steve said.

Having said that, and basically being a lazy bastard I've never fitted my thermostat block and fitted a cooler.
As a work around I filled the R380 with Motul Gear 300 which has performed flawlessly when the ambient has been up near and in the 40's.

I used to get bearing rattle and the change would deteriorate markedly with Castrol Syntrans, Redline MTL or a witches brew of MTL/MT90 whenever the temps rose past about 35*C. The gearchange and gear/bearing noise doesn't change with Gear 300.

**roverrescue** · 27th February 2016, 08:09 PM

18 Inch Finned Aluminium Transmission Engine OIL Cooler | eBay

Pretty much this couple of barbed fittings some jizzle from pirtek to convert alloy hardliners to compression barb fittings and a few lengths of braided hydraulic hose

S

**Tins** · 2nd March 2016, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by roverrescue

18 Inch Finned Aluminium Transmission Engine OIL Cooler | eBay

Pretty much this couple of barbed fittings some jizzle from pirtek to convert alloy hardliners to compression barb fittings and a few lengths of braided hydraulic hose

S

Spotted those. Glad to know you think they work, cos I was going the Davies Craig, and trying to figure out where they would fit.

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