Old engine almost ready to drop. Except, errrrrrr, my new engine is different!!!!

On this I have 2 pipe sockets (see pic) which the Porter manual shows as 'oil feed and return pipes' - running 'between the thermostatic valve and the radiator'.

These sockets are NOT on my old engine, the oil filter alone is mounted on the alloy extrusion. PLease can you tell me what their function is? When they say radiator, do they mean the intercooler? Should they be fitted? Where do I connect them to? What can I do to solve this - as obviously I can't leave the sockets as is ????

Cheers
Jonti

oil cooler would be my assumption.
looks like its a take off plate so should just unscrew leaving an OE oil filter thread

its an oil cooler sandwich plate,either get a an oil cooler and hoses, or remover the sandwich plate but turning the the treaded bolt in middle, you'llll need a shorter one to replace it.

Rich

Cheers. Is an oil cooler different to an intercooler then -as there is an additional radiator already fitted to the car - but I see only a pipe to this from the turbine...and out up to the air intake...

Should be an oil cooler on a Tipo TD SX infront of the drivers wheel - looks similar to the intercooler but not the same. Might be able to get one from a TD bravo/brava. I scrapped my TD SX partly because its oil cooler had ruptured.

That's interesting. Sounds like someone has removed mine then. As the engine seems to run on the cold side, why more cooling?

Is yours a Mk1? If so they didn't have them.

Extra cooling is always good if it's got a turbo. Maybe they had overheat issues with driven hard in Italian climates?

I have simular problem, I changed my engine and used a Tipo 1.9td 93 engine to replace a Ducato 1.9td. The oil filter had this oil cooler sandwich, the thing is on the Ducato it had a sandwich but this ran to the engine block feeding water/coolant through the oil filter sandwich, as the sandwich from the Ducato was beyond salvage I was thinking to dump it. The reason it is on the Ducato it seems to be for heating up the oil (there is a heat exchanger inside the Ducato sandwich) the idea being a faster heating engine leads to less wear? Could also be to cool the oil but just does not seem to efficient that way round.
If you did not have an oil cooler before you changed engines then just take off the sandwich, use your old threaded nipple in place of the longer one.

NO thats a oil to water cooler, same as the tipo 16v. The oil commonly is hooter then the water.

rich