Oil cooler hoses engine and gearbox

langley said:

The engine and gearbox cooler lines look to be starting to be at the end of their lives, with a possible seepage of one of the fluids coming out of the rad area..

Rather than replace the complete lines and no doubt the coolers as well, I plan to just replace the soft lines with requisite oil cooler hose and either multiple hose clips or "fir tree" adapters.

Have read a couple of threads on here talking about this, but no one commented upon the finished hose routing.

Would there be an issue in utilising a shorter/ more efficient where possible route for the the hoses??

Whilst some may see this as a possible bodge, i see no point in replacing alot of hardware that is functioning fine for the sake of replacing hoses..

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Datatek said:

If the pipes are not badly rusted, unlike my 96, then replacing the rubber hose is quite practical. Beware of re-routing though, the run to the engine oil cooler on the diesel is as short as it can be allowing for engine movement.

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