Ive been fittin an uprated oil cooler to my autobox the usual necessary. When I find that at some point some one has used the engine oil cooler as the box cooler and I have No engine oil cooler! I cant find where the original feed lines for the oil cooler even go. Please help.

Don't you have a cooler attached to your radiator?

smithy

I'm sure one model has the autobox oil fluid passing through the engine oil cooler, I think its the UK spec cars. Is yours UK or Jap?

its a jap sec 1990 tt it seems to go from the box through the rad then through the oil cooler in the nose cone. i poped a hose off and it was full of autobox fluid. had a good look about couldnt see where the oil line would even come from. there a small pipe of hard pipe joing parts of pipe toghter so it looks like its been modified. seems that sum1 has used the engine oil cooler as the autobox cooler with the orginal jap style in rad on in series with it. i just dont see who would be stupid enough to do this, so i cant belive its really been done. where are the oil lines located to feed the oil cooler? at least then i can put things back as they should be.

Maybe they have done that and fitted another oil cooler for the engine oil, IIRC its got calsonic on top of it?

your wrong

Now I could be wrong here as well......

 

......but if you have a J-spec car, then there is indeed an upgrade. But my understanding is that you buy the UK spec engine oil cooler and plumb in as necessary; then use the existing J-spec (smaller) engine oil cooler as the new auto gear box oil cooler.

 

Like I said - just my own recollection; I may have got that wrong....

 

Richard:huh:

Jap spec TT's have the gearbox auto cooler going through the rad.

 

You can fit a UK spec engine cooler in place of your existing engine cooler and then your small current engine cooler is used for your autobox.

smithy

 

Doh edit, should have read Richards post first beore, dohhh lol

hi

it was the first thing i did on my jap auto too, blanked the radiator out all together (so i can fit an alloy one)

 

plumbed the auto box fluid through the std oil cooler (after cleaning it out)

 

then fitted a mocal cooler for the oil

 

Z centre kit is what i used

 

the calsonic cooler is the oem oil cooler, and in the jap one the only auto cooler is in the radiator

 

if the oil cooler at the front is already the auto cooler, then maybe there is a oil cooler in one of the wings, but id dout it, as to fit 2 at the front is the normal thing.

 

the lines might just have been looped round and you may not have an oil cooler at all.

yeh its the zcentre kit im using, im gonna use this ans my engine oil cooler. having spoken to a few people today im fairly sure its one of two options, that the previous owner didnt get round to finishing the swap of the coolers and sold the uprated engibne oil cooler on. or that the people that fitted my engine dint fit the sandwhich plate to the block for the oil cooler and have bypassed it or they have put a nion turbo engine in that doesnt have the oil cooler.

any ideas how i could tell the difference in the block? would it even work?

the feed hose of the original oilcooler connections on a TT should be on the oilfilter-tree (the part where the oilfilter connects to), behind the RH engine mount.

The return hose is connected to the oilpan near the oilreturn hose of the turbo

 

 

Maybe they have fitted a non turbo oilfilter-tree, as those don't have an engine oil cooler and also no connections on the oilfilter tree for the cooler.

thankyou very much lymon, gonna go jack it up now and check. hopfully its just been bypassed not missing. anyone got any ideas if its possible ive been given a non turbo block and they have bolted my twin turbo parts to it would that even run and how would i be able to tell without taking everything apart?

right, just been under there and found out that the line that runs from the oil tree just gopes straight to the sump, so for some reason or another the oil cooler lines have been deleted. looks like all i need to do now is run the cooler lines throuigh the bay and hook up to the tree and the pan essentially extending the loop and plumbing in the cooler :D thank f~~k for that phew:sleep: and breath :D il do this during my oil change as teh shops are shut now and i need some fresh oil and the oil pipe for the extension. if anyone can clear my mind up on the whole is it def not a na block that would be great thank you everyone for your help and input