1989 GT (Stock Oil-Cooler)
 

I recently overhauled and rebuilt my 5.0 Liter. The car was bought new in Germany in April 1990. It came with a Factory default engine oil cooler mounted as an adapter type to the default location of the oil filter. During the over haul my assistant (Drunk Buddy) removed the water cooling hoses.

Common sense says to look near the radiator for the connecting ends or near the water pump. I have yet to find where they connect back to. Any help would be appreciated.


P_dog

The cars WITHOUT the oil cooler have two hoses running to the top of the water pump: one is the thermostat bypass, the other is the heater line from the tube on the lower intake. For the oil cooler, you remove the heater line and take two sections of 5/8" ID hose and run one from the tube on the intake to one fitting on the oil cooler body. Run the second hose from the water pump (where the heater line used to go) to the other fitting on the oil cooler body. Hope that helps!

It almost helps. As I said, it is a from the factory oil cooler. So extra hosing should NOT be required. I have two short hoses as if there were no oil cooler. Both as u said (heater tubing and thermo bypass) I also have two very long hoses attached to the oil cooler housing and extending them they reach to the area at the water pump and in the direction of the radiator they would reach just past it. Supposing they did go as you say on the heater tubing and water pump, what then happens to the two short hoses which are already there. SEE my dilema. Im not adding a oil cooler or making any mods with extra tubing. Just trying to put it all back where it was from the factory.


Thnx for your reply and time

Sounds like you need ot take out the heater hose (NOT The 90-degree bypass line - it stays!!!). Now you will have two open fittings - one on the water pump and one on the heater tube. Put one of the oil cooler hoses on each one of those fittings - if they are the original molded hoses, you should see how they fit. All the oil cooler does is splice in between the heater tube and the water pump so that the coolant circualtes through it. Hate to mention www.corral.net, but somwehere in their tech section is a picture for a home-made oil cooler that shows a diagram of wher the hoses go!

One of the mustang parts stores that sells the factory oil cooler has a schematic of it and the hose routing on their web page.

I cant remember the name of it though (theres only a million of them) however, it is a populr place to buy the police heavy duty stock style fan clutch.

anybody know where im talking about?

or better yet, go to your local ford dealer and have them print you out a picture of it from their parts computer

Oil Cooler
 

Hey thnx guys, the idea to put the cooler lines on the heater tubing and pump is a good idea. But then I would still have the short hose thats already there. hahahahahahahaha. If only my friend would have used the tags like i did on the other side.


I wonder what site that could be mach 1? I have searched and searched for a pic or diagrahm of it. Local Hinesville Ford has nothing on it other than information to use a shorter oil filter due to the stock filter hitting the sway bar on cars that still have the sway bar on. Mine is off as its primarily a down the track runner.


Appreciate the replys good idea griff, and at the very least, I could just take the dam thing off the car. Reminds me, the car was delivered with the entire police package. Should a cam swap disturb anything? Puter module was long ago replaced with Hypertech 1/4 mile chip.


William
89 GT