WANTED: 03 oil cooler

Dick Ritchie

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Anyone have an 03-04 stock oil cooler they are looking to part with? Found some rough ones on ebay but looking for one in decent condition. Trying to rebuild mine after it puked oil into coolant. I cannot for the life of me seem to get core separated from housing (gasket has melted inside between core and housing and is making it a bitch to remove without dinging up/marring core (which I did) Preferably want one that I can easily get core out of to rebuild. Thanks
 

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If I knew how to make a GT oil filter adapter work on my cobra I would give you mine. I think mine is leaking. I bought the rebuild kit but was not super pumped to find out how tedious it is to rebuild it. I left it on there to leak (not a big leak). Wish the GT oil filter adapter would be a plug and play swap.
 

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I appreciate the response.. yeah its a pain for sure but other than going the delete option I didn't really have a choice since it had a bad block gasket on mounting plate as well as bad seals on core of cooler. My shop has my cooler now trying to get it apart but I'm not too hopeful as I marred it up pretty good trying to get it out. Thanks man
 

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10-4. Thanks for response. How much are you asking for it? Also what type of shape is it in/mileage of the car it came off of. Sorry for all the questions but I finally got mine apart and the core has some corrosion near o ring lips that could affect sealing so just really want to make sure core is good to go as I already have everything to rebuild it. Thanks man.
I have one for sale.
 

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It came off my car at the 189xxx mile mark. Its in pretty good condition for the mileage. Let me take it out and apart and get some good pics. Here are some pics I have. It cleaned up nice and when I took it apart, I didnt notice any rust but let me confirm.
 

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Dick Ritchie

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Thanks man. Looks solid on external surfaces especially considering mileage. I'll stand by for more pictures of the core. As mentioned before; my biggest concern is the o ring channel areas than run around the sides of the lower and upper area on core (not o ring areas on top and bottom of core)
 

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I think I have a new, maybe rebuilt one from ford that came with a long block we bought for the Marauder. We didn't use the cooler on the Marauder.

I'll have to look for it.
 

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