how easy is it to fit a oil cooler, do you have to buy a sandwich plate or can you just use the original one that the oil filter bolts to and just use the pipes from that ?

 

Do you mean like a front mounted mocal jobby?

 

Buy a full kit and throw your standard cooler away.

And the hoses which are connected to the standard one lead water

 

ur rst will have one on it ant now

 

if i remove the old cooler, what do i do with the pipes that come out of it, or are they not needed? i think they go into the engine.

 

The 2 pipes that come off the top of the standard cooler are part of the cooling system which can be bypassed if your not using it anymore.

 

the std oil cooler is fine why change it

 

my car seems to run really hot under the bonnet, but the water temperature is fine. i mean if its running for a about 10 - 15 mins constant driving you could fry a egg on the bonnet and the warmer it gets you start to get a rattle. so i thought the oil might be getting to hot. ohh yeah ive just given it a oil change aswell so its new oil too

 

well if it gets to hot you know u got trouble have you tryed a flush of the whole water system??

 

yeah i flushed out the water system twice just to make sure, anything else you might think it could be, or is it just fucked!

 

Have you checked the timing. If its too far retarded it will run hot?

How did you flush out the cooling system?

 

if the timing was out would it still run ok?

 

Yes it would. Mine ran fine but hot and found the timing to be out 2 degrees. Put the timing how it should be and no more heat problems.