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Originally Posted by Chad300tdt
Consider cutting the hose fittings off the oil cooler nipples. I was careful and still galled the threads. Also the fittings on my oil filter housing are frozen together. I plan to cut the lines close to the fitting and unscrew everything out of the housing. Then I can carefully cut the hose fittings off those too and put the nipples back in the housing with some blue thread lock.
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Oh I will, I have done the project twice before....and neither time was pleasant. I could not get them off my cooler successfully, even with carefully dremeling the nuts off, so I ended up with a brand new shiny Behr oil cooler. Cost: $302  I am going to try some new strategies and ideas in getting them off this time without damaging the threads.....but if they are super coroded together, there's not really much that can be done.
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