Looking for an oil cooler

[MaximX]

Cruising around the Camaro sites I found out that on some cars (& mine) is what GM calls a power steering cooler.  Several people now call it a device that mixes coolant and PS fluid.  I have decided to take away the possibility of going through what several people have experienced.....see picture.  So what I am looking for is a small cooler that my 3/8" hoses can attach to and then just zap that cooler near the new hose I will be getting.  The inlets are about 5" apart, not a critical thing.  I looked around today to see what auto stores had and came up empty.  I am wondering if any of you have something like I am looking for lying around that you would like to turn into a bit of money.  I still wonder why they would put a 'cooler' in water that gets around 195degrees f.   

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[Rusty Bucket]

  Though I have no experience with an engine coolant-to-steering-fluid cooler, a regular old air-to-power-steering fluid cooler (which was just a an extra loop or two of steel steering pressure line passing through a rack of brass or alloy fins) used to be a very easy thing to score at a junkyard - especially if you looked on a cop car, or sometimes a heavy duty towing-package equipped car.  Now, I haven't looked for one for a generation, but they were pretty common back in the day, and easy to plumb in as they mounted between the pump and it's usual hoses.  Since they were intended to cool with the air already having been through the radiator, they were probably no more efficient than the coolant one, as the steering fluid would only be 'cooled' when it was above the temperature of the pre-heated air...  but they didn't do what this one can do when provoked, I suppose.
  Alternatively, there used to be coolers for transmissions available in just about any size, and since they rarely had thermostats or bypasses, they were pretty cheap - though the packaging would definitely be 'other-than-stock' looking.

[MaximX]

It is not that big a deal, last resort would be to plumb the lines together and be done with it.  Lots of cars do not have a cooler for PS.  If not driven hard it will not be an issue.  In taking off that part today I forgot I had the rear 2 brake bleeders open....I usually let the old fluid drip out....this time being distracted I forgot about it, now have a lot of air in those lines...Ack!  oh well....this is just little stuff.

[Dennis]

Power steering coolant ?  You are in Canada dude.  Just get rid of it.  I know the planet is heating up and all, but in the grand scheme of things, I'd be more worried about food supply and making sure my fallout shelter has enough water, canned food and shotgun shells.

Peace & Grease, Dennis

[madmac74]

 On my 94 and 98 Dogdges there are  air cooled power steering lines , picture a tiny Radiator in line with the pipes. Seems like a bit of overkill to me . but I guess Mama moper put it there for a reason!

MAc

[MaximX]

Went to the wreckers today.  Told them what I was looking for, they ask what it is for, so I explain.  Lady there takes me out to where cooler cores are, all kind of big.  So we go to the actual steering pumps and I find an almost perfect size cooler on an 02 Dakota pump.  Back up front one guy is waving this thing around asking others (on the phones) what it is worth.  By then they know I want it for my car, they say $20. for this little part.  I am thinking more like $10. but I just say OK, $20. even right?  I was able to zip tie it to the back of one of my fan shrouds and I am sure this thing will cool better than what GM had on this car.  So I was thinking of getting a hose to replace the unit, but a light comes on.  Just run a hose between those two inlets and I am good to go.  Even if it fails all will be contained, so I don't have to pay for a new hose.  Not bike stuff, but could have been if I found one off a bike, haha. 

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