gregs provided a very helpful post the other day on reparing leaking oil cooler lines. i face the same problem. i am lazy and want to make the job as easy as possible. even if it means making a horse's petutie out of myself and possibly upsetting the sensibilities of the good people here. i continue. what would prevent me from doing the following: disconnecting the oil cooler line at the filter housing and at the oil cooler. i then proceed in theory to cut the steel lines into pieces that would enable me to remove them with no pain. i then take the remaining tubing section from the filter housing and the tubing section from oil cooler to a hydraulic repair facility and have a piece of hose of proper length joined to each section. at this point if theory holds i have mostly hose and two short sections of tubing with the necessary connectors in tact. installation of the mostly hose oil cooler lines would be a snap. where does this hairbrained approach fall short? thank you.