cfherrman
Senior Member
Do you hook the lines that feed the cooler together then?
So with that being said why would I ditch the cooler if it can be cleaned and is otherwise in good condition? There is no room for adjusting driving style here, we're regularly pulling up hill and its full noise otherwise you won't make itI've done this in the past with a truck when the cooler burst a seam and another couldn't be acquired fast enough. Only detriment was an increase in exhaust temperature which was easily compensated for by an easier application of throttle, and a slight alteration of the driving style. No long term effects when the replacement cooler arrived and was installed.
That's been over 20 years ago and the truck was still around till last fall when sold off. Not many grain haulers around here running straight trucks any longer.
The cooler is fed through the cylinder block. You install a plug in the block and plug the discharge line from the cooler outlet at the engine. I used a piece of pipe and a cap clamped into the rubber hose lines for this. Basically you are converting to a non aftercooled cylinder block. This photo kinda shows what is done to bypass the cooler:Do you hook the lines that feed the cooler together then?
I'm getting confusedHuffa,
Don’t mess around. Those cylinder heads crack at the first overheat. Or, if you look at them funny.