Outer Limits 4x4 Board

hi guys

I'm fitting a front mount cooler to my Tb42 GQ patrol and at the front of the car there are to rubber hoses that come from i'm pretty sure the power steering resvior thingo and then they connect to a soild line that goes thru a hole in my radaitor support pannel and does a loop then goes back inside the engine bay ?

Only thing i can see it doing is holding more fluid ?

I'll get a pic and see what u go reakon becuase it's in my way a bit..

Cheers

Rick.

its actually a P/S cooler, if you remove it, id fit another just to be on the safe side as wheelin can put alot of heat into power steer fluids,

Cheers mate for that i'm thinking of moving it into my engine bay beside my chassis rail or something maybe ?

Cheers mate

Rick.

You would want to keep it, or replace it with a proper oil cooler, a small one would be better than the tube, and take up less space.
Some very cheap ones on ebay.

CRUSHU wrote:You would want to keep it, or replace it with a proper oil cooler, a small one would be better than the tube, and take up less space.
Some very cheap ones on ebay.

Cheers bud might look at that !

Rick.

GQ's with 35's cook the P/S fluid pretty quick. When I get my ute started I plan on fitting a small cooler. Dosent need to be very big. Anything is going to be better than whats there. Even GU's cook the fluid after a hard tight stage of less than 1k.

i have a Auto trans cooler at the front of my GQ to cool down the power steer, its plumbed in after the box, goes from the pump to the box, then through the cooler then back to the resi

Here is a pic of what it looked just just before i finalized everything.

I used a oil cooler of I think a slab side GSXR1100 proberly 100mm x 180mm works grat it is a tube fin design with the oil lines running across the top to the rhs of front of car, Any motor bike oil cooler should be heap as they cool an engine that is air cooled to start with

i have installed a GU power steering pump to my GQ and its doesnt have this loop setup described earlier as a GQ has. so why does a GQ do this and not GU?

you can remount the hard line, or make more copper line to run the cooler further back..

as long as you have enough capacity you only really need the metal line.

I am running much longer hoses to my reservoir and moving it further from my pump.