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Message started by JohnBoy on 05/10/09 at 15:03:47

Title: oil cooler advice?
Post by JohnBoy on 05/10/09 at 15:03:47

I didn't see any recent post on oil coolers for the savage. Any Ideas or suggestions?
I have seen an oil temp/drain plug for a savage from Moto-Detail. The Savage doesn't appear to have room for a temperature probe, so my guess is that it would only read the temp of the case itself.
I would love to have both.

Thanks for any help.

Johnboy

Title: Re: oil cooler advice?
Post by verslagen1 on 05/10/09 at 15:38:22

There's a handfull that have done it and a couple of ways to gitrdon.

any ol' cooler will do.
There are 2 ports on the front of the case and the bottom. M14-1.25 if I remember correctly.
Now the last time I went to the dealer I saw something that just made me drool, and I asked where do they park these at night? [smiley=evil.gif] It had I mean has a nice oil cooler on the front, oil lines running down about the right place too.
But what I'm intending to do as a phase 1 project, is to run some copper line up from one port to the other. And plug in a temperature gage.

Title: Re: oil cooler advice?
Post by JohnBoy on 05/10/09 at 16:19:29

Please let me know what you find out.
Looks like I will spend at least one more summer in the desert, and buddy it's "HOT" out here!

Title: Re: oil cooler advice?
Post by PTRider on 05/10/09 at 17:27:38

In desert heat be sure you're running xW-50 synthetic motorcycle oil. The cooler is a great idea. I'd use steel or stainless steel tubing, not copper, except the copper as a development project would be fine. When the copper has the right bends, any hydraulic shop can bend steel or stainless to match, as well as providing the right fittings. Call ahead to see if they can source metric fittings, and the metric fittings probably will need metric tubing...all available in any metro industrial center like L.A. and elsewhere. There's lots of imported industrial machinery using metric fittings.