oil cooler
 

Whats the best flowing oil cooler out there, also have a cooler that's had a engine blow while in use is there any way to reuse?

don't reuse that cooler, you will find several people here that have trashed new motors by using their old contaminated cooler.

As far as your other question, how much HP are you running and where do you boat, both these questions will have a bearing on the answer

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[QUOTE=Wobble;2170797]don't reuse that cooler, you will find several people here that have trashed new motors by using their old contaminated cooler.

....me being one of them:(

[QUOTE=....me being one of them:([/QUOTE]

Me to:( . Thought I was smarter than that:D

900 hp, boat is mostly ran at a in central iowa.Was running a hardin marine 1000hp with thermostat engine builder said to much restriction

there are several in the classified adds right now. where are you from ? I don't see many other boats around here with big power .

do must of boating at sailorville

i know this will be a minority opinion, but i have cleaned and reused oil coolers with 100 % success.... many many of them. there is really no reason or configuration issue that i can imagine that made me ever think otherwise. you flush them, wash them, flush them again... solvents , hot soapy water, more solvents... them hi pressure wash in both directions... hi pressure air with cloth over the end ... etc etc... and thats w/ automotive racing coolers which are 100 times harder to clean than these marine heat exchanger type...in prep to writing this , i took the cooler off my old 454 and cut it in half to see what was inside...and its nothing more than a tube bundle... no nooks or crannies to capture or hide anything...

it might take maybe an hour to clean one properly. . for sure if you think you are just going to run some safety clean thru it for a few minutes you are kidding yourself... but if you clean it like you would clean a block or anything else with small passages you will be fine... also... think about it....

if the cooler was BEFORE the filter and therefore contaminated, when you put it back after cleaning, , on the off chance you issed a flake, the filter will catch it...

if the cooler was AFTER the filter, then what do you figure was in it in the first place ?

i think this whole bogeyman " the devil lives in my oil cooler" thing is just nonsense.