Oil cooler suggestions?

[dirtyfingers]

77 gs 1000. OIl coolers...Where to find one? Or does an OEM one work with modifications? Im thinking about stealing one off a Kaw ZX6. Where did you hook your lines up? Anyone got a pic?

[chef1366]

You tap into the oil sensor under the carbs. I have an adapter plate I can part with but I'm keeping the cooler.

[Nessism]

Earl's makes some nice coolers. Get Chef's adapter and order your self up a cooler and hoses from Earl's.

BTW, tons of info on this subject in the archives...some of it from me.

[chef1366]

Didn't you make some Ed?

[Nessism]

Didn't you make some Ed?

I made a son but his name is not Ed.

Could it be you are referring to an oil cooler adapter? If so, yup, I made several. BassCliff is hosting a tutorial I put together on how to make your own 8 valve oil cooler adapter. Not hard to make but if you can just buy one from one of the GSR faithful like you, why bother?

PS, I have tons of posts about my trials and tribulation into oil cooler land that will turn up in the search function. I often find myself repeating myself so don't want to bore everyone...the search function is easier.

[chef1366]

comma............................

[TheCafeKid]

77 gs 1000. OIl coolers...Where to find one? Or does an OEM one work with modifications? Im thinking about stealing one off a Kaw ZX6. Where did you hook your lines up? Anyone got a pic?

77??? 1000??? 77 750 frame with a 1000 motor in it? Or?

[BassCliff]

Hi Mr. dirtyfingers,

Here is the information on my website to which Mr. Nessism was referring:

GS Oil Cooler Adapter Information

You'll find Mr. Nessism's tutorial, links to parts suppliers, and links to informative threads in this very forum (you don't even have to search for them).

Thanks to all of the experienced GSR members who share so generously, I've been able to collect a good bit of handy information. I'm keeping it because I know I'll need it some day. If anyone else finds it useful, that's just gravy.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

[renobruce]

Here's how I ran mine:

[Nessism]

I routed mine around the outside of the engine; short runs and easy to route.

This cooler is the smallest of the Earl's motorcycle coolers - still quite large. They make all kinds of different sizes - one of the smaller rectangular coolers would be plenty of capacity - this one seems like overkill.

[dirtyfingers]

Nice! Thanks guys. I wasn't sure I needed an adaptor. I was planning on building one on my own, which seems to be the theme for this bike.

[Dan Ruddock]

Some will disagree with me but IMO the eight valve motors with stock compression and fuel mixture set correctly don't need oil coolers and they can do more harm than good if they slow down warm up time. Dan

[dardoonk]

Can a thermostat be added to block flow to the cooler until the engine is hot enough?

[rustybronco]

Can a thermostat be added to block flow to the cooler until the engine is hot enough?

Yes you can add a thermostatically controlled bypass valve between the engine and the cooler. below the set temp it bypasses the cooler taking the cooler out of circuit.
my old Kerker engine oil cooler was like that.

[tkent02]

Some will disagree with me but IMO the eight valve motors with stock compression and fuel mixture set correctly don't need oil coolers and they can do more harm than good if they slow down warm up time. Dan

Has anyone outside of racing applications ever had a two valve GS engine damaged by too hot oil?

Oil is way better now than it was when these engines were designed, they worked fine in the heat back then, they still do.

Coolers are oil leaks waiting to happen.