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Chevy Oil Filter Adapter and Cooler Line Permanent Fix 1988-1998 Chevy
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00:00:02.100 you 00:00:15.03900:00:15.049 oh my what am i up to now alright well I 00:00:20.41000:00:20.420 wasn't gonna do this video but I decided 00:00:22.74900:00:22.759 that there's just not any good videos on 00:00:26.38000:00:26.390 YouTube that really address the entire 00:00:29.58900:00:29.599 problem right there where that hole is 00:00:34.03000:00:34.040 is where the oil filter adapter goes 00:00:36.60000:00:36.610 there are two oil cooler lines that plug 00:00:40.09000:00:40.100 in from the side there and then my oil 00:00:42.72900:00:42.739 filter comes out horizontally now this 00:00:46.45000:00:46.460 is on an 89 Chevy k 1500 00:00:49.24000:00:49.250 four-wheel-drive there's a lot of GM 00:00:52.39000:00:52.400 trucks that use this with different 00:00:54.43000:00:54.440 engine configurations this happens to be 00:00:56.77000:00:56.780 a 5.7 you could have this in the 5 liter 00:01:01.18000:01:01.190 even the 4.3 so the problem is that the 00:01:07.33000:01:07.340 gasket that goes right there in that 00:01:11.63900:01:11.649 hole fails over time and it starts 00:01:15.81900:01:15.829 leaking you can also get which is very 00:01:19.27000:01:19.280 common a leak at the oil cooler lines 00:01:21.48900:01:21.499 they're just a plastic push lock fitting 00:01:24.78900:01:24.799 which is a horrible design but needless 00:01:29.16900:01:29.179 to say mine was not leaking there it was 00:01:32.23000:01:32.240 leaking at the gasket so I pulled 00:01:34.69000:01:34.700 everything out and I'm gonna show you 00:01:38.01000:01:38.020 what I'm going to do and how to fix this 00:01:40.88900:01:40.899 permanently real quick I'm going to give 00:01:44.49900:01:44.509 you a shot the oil cooler lines snake 00:01:49.76900:01:49.779 the side of the engine move around and 00:01:54.14900:01:54.159 plug into the oil cooler that's on the 00:01:56.62000:01:56.630 side of the radiator or integral with 00:01:59.31900:01:59.329 the radiator now here are the oral 00:02:02.85900:02:02.869 cooler lines in the relative position 00:02:05.21900:02:05.229 both of these would attach to the 00:02:09.37000:02:09.380 radiator as I showed you I just have 00:02:11.41000:02:11.420 them capped because I was a had them in 00:02:14.08000:02:14.090 the trunk of the car there is a rubber 00:02:16.96000:02:16.970 line this one happens to be fabric cover 00:02:20.14000:02:20.150 these are actually AC Delco lines and 00:02:22.92000:02:22.930 then there's the ends here which have 00:02:27.58000:02:27.590 the 00:02:28.41000:02:28.420 plastic push fittings and the lines go 00:02:36.94900:02:36.959 into each of these fittings here this 00:02:40.11000:02:40.120 right here is the surface where the 00:02:43.58900:02:43.599 gasket would go and that went up to the 00:02:45.60000:02:45.610 block and then right here that's where 00:02:48.09000:02:48.100 the oil filter comes out now 00:02:50.15000:02:50.160 first problem when you go online and you 00:02:52.74000:02:52.750 go to buy the replacement gaskets please 00:02:57.63000:02:57.640 don't use anything but AC Delco okay the 00:03:01.08000:03:01.090 doormen ones leak okay so you go on 00:03:04.05000:03:04.060 there and you look up put it in your 00:03:05.88000:03:05.890 engine everywhere will tell you that 00:03:07.83000:03:07.840 this is the gasket set 00:03:09.41000:03:09.420 well obviously clearly you can see it's 00:03:12.72000:03:12.730 not all right this is for a four point 00:03:15.72000:03:15.730 four point three liter it has a 00:03:17.61000:03:17.620 completely different part number but 00:03:20.64000:03:20.650 every parts resource you go to online 00:03:25.40000:03:25.410 shows that part number for the five 00:03:28.08000:03:28.090 liter in five point seven that is not 00:03:30.00000:03:30.010 the correct part number that is the 00:03:34.34900:03:34.359 correct gasket see the size difference 00:03:37.88000:03:37.890 okay 00:03:39.12000:03:39.130 this brown gasket is metal with fiber it 00:03:43.38000:03:43.390 fits right here I know that even though 00:03:45.93000:03:45.940 this isn't completely metallized here 00:03:49.89000:03:49.900 that is the correct gasket and then the 00:03:52.11000:03:52.120 o-ring fits in the o-ring channel right 00:03:54.99000:03:55.000 here so you can see the difference that 00:03:59.24000:03:59.250 is the part number that fits the v8 00:04:01.92000:04:01.930 engines the five liter and the five 00:04:04.02000:04:04.030 sevens 00:04:05.03000:04:05.040 okay so that addresses that part the 00:04:10.14000:04:10.150 other problem is that you will either 00:04:12.30000:04:12.310 get a leak here at these push lock 00:04:16.88000:04:16.890 fittings which are horrible or you'll 00:04:19.94900:04:19.959 get a leak at the crimps so what a lot 00:04:23.94000:04:23.950 of people do is they'll pull the hose 00:04:25.65000:04:25.660 off and they'll fix this and they'll go 00:04:29.82000:04:29.830 get new hoses well most of the hoses out 00:04:31.89000:04:31.900 there or Dorman hoses and they're not 00:04:34.52900:04:34.539 worth spit okay I wouldn't even put them 00:04:36.87000:04:36.880 in here if you can find the AC Delco 00:04:41.67000:04:41.680 hoses 00:04:42.35900:04:42.369 you're better off but it's still you're 00:04:45.07900:04:45.089 going to be plagued with a poor design 00:04:47.86900:04:47.879 this side is fine but this side is not 00:04:51.58900:04:51.599 so what's the solution 00:04:53.78900:04:53.799 well the solution I'm gonna reuse my 00:05:00.08900:05:00.099 hard lines and cutting this out right 00:05:03.20900:05:03.219 here so what I'm gonna do is I'm going 00:05:07.04900:05:07.059 to take some this is transmission cooler 00:05:11.21900:05:11.229 fitting these are - 8a in fittings and 00:05:21.31900:05:21.329 that's going to replace this now 00:05:23.48900:05:23.499 obviously it's a little longer so I'm 00:05:26.06900:05:26.079 gonna have to cut a little more out to 00:05:27.98900:05:27.999 get the overall length the same but I've 00:05:31.40900:05:31.419 got two of them and I've got a lot of 00:05:36.64900:05:36.659 aan fittings for instance this one right 00:05:41.03900:05:41.049 here these just screw out we'll put the 00:05:48.71900:05:48.729 blue monster teflon tape on here and 00:05:52.19900:05:52.209 this is the 3/8 NPT - that is - 8a N and 00:06:02.87900:06:02.889 that'll just screw in there so what's 00:06:04.37900:06:04.389 going to happen is I'm gonna cut the end 00:06:09.41900:06:09.429 of this tube off right here and I'm 00:06:12.23900:06:12.249 going to use a fitting that's a - 8a n 00:06:15.74900:06:15.759 female which we'll be able to hook to 00:06:17.63900:06:17.649 the pipe here so this will never leak 00:06:20.38900:06:20.399 then I'll cut this both of these lines 00:06:24.01900:06:24.029 put these fittings in and we'll keep 00:06:27.95900:06:27.969 moving on I'm not gonna do anything to 00:06:30.68900:06:30.699 these leaving this side the same so this 00:06:35.93900:06:35.949 is not really going to be a Hal - 00:06:37.49900:06:37.509 because it's just too frustrating to try 00:06:39.47900:06:39.489 to hold the camera and do all this 00:06:40.64900:06:40.659 underneath the truck but I will show you 00:06:43.58900:06:43.599 guys each section that I do and give you 00:06:52.88900:06:52.899 a progress report so 00:06:54.53000:06:54.540 so again first thing I'm going to do is 00:06:56.42000:06:56.430 I'm getting rid of these we don't need 00:06:58.73000:06:58.740 those anymore and I'm going to use the 00:07:01.07000:07:01.080 blue monster tape install both of these 00:07:03.17000:07:03.180 fittings and I'll be right back 00:07:05.05000:07:05.060 alright I've got our fittings on now 00:07:08.08000:07:08.090 next I'm going to be cleaning this line 00:07:12.89000:07:12.900 up a little bit and then these are the 00:07:15.61000:07:15.620 plastic push type connectors that we're 00:07:23.87000:07:23.880 eliminating so I'm going to cut the line 00:07:26.08000:07:26.090 right there and then I'll show you the 00:07:29.09000:07:29.100 fitting that we're going to be 00:07:30.23000:07:30.240 installing on there all right so I got 00:07:34.55000:07:34.560 the o-ring and I took a little bit of 00:07:38.93000:07:38.940 grease and put on the underside of where 00:07:42.95000:07:42.960 the gasket touches the aluminum to hold 00:07:45.62000:07:45.630 it in place because it's quite difficult 00:07:48.14000:07:48.150 to get this up in position so 00:07:51.76000:07:51.770 unfortunately I won't be able to show 00:07:53.60000:07:53.610 you because I need about five hands to 00:07:57.41000:07:57.420 do this but I've already got the bolts 00:07:58.76000:07:58.770 ready and I'll show you what it looks 00:08:01.31000:08:01.320 like when I'm done alright guys so I had 00:08:04.10000:08:04.110 a little change of plans with this and 00:08:08.54000:08:08.550 I'm gonna explain why so I went ahead 00:08:10.40000:08:10.410 and got the oil filter adapter bolted up 00:08:14.12000:08:14.130 and I've run this about 20 minutes and 00:08:16.22000:08:16.230 as you can see there's absolutely no 00:08:17.48000:08:17.490 leaks the lines are all hooked up now 00:08:21.68000:08:21.690 originally I had told you that I was 00:08:24.02000:08:24.030 going to replace the rubber portion with 00:08:31.25000:08:31.260 what I had bought and I didn't because I 00:08:34.43000:08:34.440 had noticed that there's not enough room 00:08:37.54000:08:37.550 before where the pipe bends for me to 00:08:42.98000:08:42.990 fit that fitting here that nut the a end 00:08:46.49000:08:46.500 nut there probably is a little bit more 00:08:50.51000:08:50.520 under this collar if I ground this off 00:08:53.96000:08:53.970 but I wasn't sure if that was going to 00:08:57.23000:08:57.240 be a problem or not and I didn't want to 00:08:58.70000:08:58.710 grind that before knowing that so what 00:09:04.70000:09:04.710 I'm going to do is I'm going to 00:09:07.29000:09:07.300 just run this like it is until this 00:09:10.92000:09:10.930 starts leaking whenever that maybe 00:09:13.82900:09:13.839 because they're not leaking though and 00:09:16.73000:09:16.740 like this fitting right here would be 00:09:19.61000:09:19.620 okay but this would be really close the 00:09:25.59000:09:25.600 distance here to have that nut on here 00:09:28.19900:09:28.209 so and these these lines are the lines 00:09:32.28000:09:32.290 for this application they fit perfect so 00:09:34.53000:09:34.540 but the main the main issue is number 00:09:39.78000:09:39.790 one the gaskets fixed here and number 00:09:41.43000:09:41.440 two this will never ever leak well I say 00:09:45.24000:09:45.250 never ever but it's not gonna there's 00:09:47.10000:09:47.110 nothing there's no plastic piece or 00:09:50.94000:09:50.950 rubber o-ring for it to fail so 00:09:54.13900:09:54.149 worst-case scenario let's say the line 00:09:56.88000:09:56.890 started leaking take these lines off go 00:09:59.67000:09:59.680 get a brand new set of lines cut the 00:10:02.61000:10:02.620 ends off like I did and put the ATM 00:10:04.23000:10:04.240 fittings back on there and we're good to 00:10:07.05000:10:07.060 go so yeah I'm very pleased with the way 00:10:11.46000:10:11.470 this turned out I hope you guys if 00:10:13.68000:10:13.690 you've got one of these trucks you'll 00:10:15.26900:10:15.279 consider doing something like this too 00:10:18.38900:10:18.399 this is to get rid of this weak spot 00:10:21.09000:10:21.100 it's really really I can't believe Jim 00:10:24.09000:10:24.100 did that but anyway and also just 00:10:27.30000:10:27.310 remember to use the proper gasket like I 00:10:29.51900:10:29.529 had explained before if and when I ever 00:10:32.91000:10:32.920 do replace and I'm sure I probably will 00:10:37.38000:10:37.390 because these are old lines when I do 00:10:40.53000:10:40.540 that then I will definitely do an 00:10:42.69000:10:42.700 updated video and we'll do it together 00:10:44.73000:10:44.740 this way I can actually mark because 00:10:47.73000:10:47.740 I've got the lines back on here and I 00:10:49.29000:10:49.300 know what I know what I would be doing 00:10:51.21000:10:51.220 so I would go ahead and mark it and know 00:10:53.85000:10:53.860 where to cut it so anyway guys I hope 00:10:56.01000:10:56.020 this video was helpful if you want to 00:10:59.25000:10:59.260 see more projects like this on this 00:11:03.18000:11:03.190 truck then just leave me a comment there 00:11:05.85000:11:05.860 will be a lot more because I've got a 00:11:07.35000:11:07.360 lot more to do to it with that being 00:11:09.48000:11:09.490 said thank you for your viewership and 00:11:12.06000:11:12.070 subscribership and I will talk to you on 00:11:13.86000:11:13.870 the next video 00:11:23.99000:11:24.000
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