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Thread: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    That looks just like ours....only cleaner and without the repaired sections. Maybe I just can't see it in your picture but on my left (3-legged one) it has an additional flat support that goes from the oil cooler hole up to the 3rd, stand-alone leg. Not sure if that was an add-on with one of the previous repairs or it came that way. You can see it on the right-side of the attached picture. It goes straight up and is welded to the 3rd leg.
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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    How is this angle?

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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    Quote Originally Posted by PeterL View Post
    How is this angle?

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    Looks about right. Based on my photo it appears that the 3rd leg goes out at about a 45d angle. Looks like yours does as well.

    We were kind of wondering about clearance with the cowl. Ours rides pretty close to the cowl opening. If we get any engine mount sage the oil cooler will start rubbing as our first indicator. We just changed the rubbers (actually corrected to the correct ones -see my other thread) and unfortunately it already pretty close. I think the cowl was originally fitted with the wrong rubber mounts. Not sure what we can do about it now though as it would be pretty hard to adjust the oil cooler mount to raise it up.
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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    Sent it on friday, sorry it took sometime to mail, been under the weather.

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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    No problem as we wouldn't have had the opportunity to work on it anyway. Really appreciate you sending them. As we've had so much issues with them breaking its tempting to add a bunch of reinforcement to them before installing. However it could just be that our old ones have become brittle so we will hold off and install them as is and see what happens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PeterL View Post
    How is this angle?

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    We got the bracket and probably finally going to install this weekend. Quick question, if you look at the separate leg it has a couple of grooves in the tubing -I will post a zoomed in portion of your pic.
    On our existing bracket, we have a doubler or extra tube that's been welded in nearly this exact same spot that we assume was an earlier repair. Are those grooves normal/standard? Not sure what purpose they would serve other than to weaken the tube and I have no idea why it would be there. Maybe by our NOT having that, it's causing a problem.
    Capture.JPG Wish I had a better pic of this but didn't think to take one.
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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    Here's the pic of our existing bracket showing that "repair" on the leg in that same spot.
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    By the way, I do see those same grooves in the pictures of both of the separate brackets that PeterL posted so I have to have to assume they are "normal". Just not sure why?
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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    Is it rubbing on the starter somewhere?

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    Default Re: Original oil cooler brackets keep breaking

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Pierce View Post
    Is it rubbing on the starter somewhere?
    No, nothing is rubbing. On my black bracket that's a repair that someone welded up. However, on PeterL's two bracket pictures, the long leg has a couple of grooves in the tubing and I can't figure out why?
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