Help! Plumbing oil cooler/filter

Does the motor pump out to (bottom line in picture)to the filter and then to the cooler, back to the motor?

Yes, the top hose is the entrance to the oil galley. If your oil pump is installed correctly, that is, it has a plug in the case which keeps the pumped oil from going through a passage to the oil galley, it will be pumped out the oil pump cover (bottom hose)

From the oil pump, you can either go to an oil filter then an external cooler or external cooler, oil filter than back into the engine via the top hose

Thanks! So does it matter if it goes from the motor/filter to the top of the cooler or in to the bottom of cooler.

If the cooler is mounted with the inlet and outlet horizontal, or, if you decide to mount it vertical, most recommend a bottom fill.

I want to thank Larry Jowdy for his dedication to this site and willingness to give information and guidance to folks trying to DIY.
Larry--you are the best and a LOT of SOC'ers are very grateful for your help! Except when you told me that maybe I'd be better off to sell my tools and find a good mechanic! My bruised ego got over that and I have benefitted greatly from your wisdom and willingness to help everyone who asks.

That just needed to be said. Thanks, Larry!----Jack

I'll second that Jack. I've owned my Speedster for less than a month and Larry has gotten me off on the right foot. Fortunately, for me, he is in my neck of the woods for hands on help when needed. A great resource for us all.

Jack:

If you're in need of tools, I have a semi-extensive set that has been personally used by the one and only Henry Reisner of Intermeccanica to rebuild a Weber carb in the parking lot of the Hotel Carlisle. In the rain. Under a Tornado Warning for that locale (it was all over the local news, and they mentioned Carlisle, East of I-81).

Now I know that I could probably get several thouSand$ of dollar$ for them on ebay (they still have Henry's fingerprints all over them, after all) but, for you and you alone I'll cut a "Super Deal", but only if you're interested and let me know in the next ten minutes (tick, tick, tick...)

They still have the original rust from the torrential downpour Henry was working through, prominent through all three drawers. The talking/bragging rights at various bench-racing/beer drinking seminars would be endless, don't ya think??

Hurry! You've only got until 9pm, EDT...

gn

Too late...

Bob--you are so fortunate to be near Larry! If more new Speedster owners found this site and the expert help with problems available here from Larry and many others like him, maybe we wouldn't see so many cars up for sale with 700 miles on them.

Thanks to help I have received on the SOC site, yesterday my car reached 10,000 miles in 23 months.

And has never been on a trailer.---Jack

Thank You for the accolades.

Well I changed all my hoses, put new valve cover gaskets it it,s leaking more then it ever did before...

my valve covers slide up and down when attached to the heads. Should I use gasket sealer with the cork gaskets?

If the valve covers are stock and are old, they may be warped. New stock covers are cheap. Also, if the bails (large wire locking devices) are old, they may have lost some of their clamping power.

I usually use contact cement and glue the gaskets to the covers.

clean the cover surface, apply a thin coat of contact cement. Apply cement on the cork gasket. Let both sit for 10 minutes then apply the gasket to the cover. It will hold it in place and usually solves the leak issue

Aluminum, I used grease and added 2 washers under the bail that touches the cover, drove ten miles and no leaky. I need new bails.

My oil filter iis in the rear wheel well and The oil lines run between the headers, very hot.
Thought on this location?

Try rebending the bales to add a bit more pressure against the cover....

Wrap header wrap around the header pipes and the oil lines that run close to each other. ~Alan