Water pipe oops..

[1gTurboTuner]

Well the eclipse is up on stands while I am repairing a few issues she had. Long story short I have 3 motors, 1 from a 90 with an external oil cooler and 2 91+. And my water pipe has been leaking really bad on my one good motor.

So I pull the turbo off and disconnect the water pipe and remove it and I notice that the water pipe is dented at the end where the O ring is and i'm 100% sure thats why it was leaking, so I grab a water pipe off one of my other 2 blocks without even thinking throw on a new seal and put everything together.

As I finish up I'm looking around my turbo to double check its all hooked up and I notice the line coming from my (I think) oil filter housing isn't connected so I'm looking on my water pipe for the nipple... and there isn't one there.. I went through all that work and I accidentally used the water pipe from my 90 motor with no nipple for that line. My question is can I just plug that line and not have coolant flow through it? Will it hurt anything?

I really don't wanna pull the pipe off and do that all over again..

Thanks,

 

[Dsmx17]

technically you can just plug it, not much difference between that and a mighty max filter housing (being non cooled) however.... Depending on your climate it may not be a good idea...

 

[1gTurboTuner]

Well in SD we do have some pretty hot days but also have extremely cold days to.. I'm assuming the hot would be the main issue?

 

[97gstnick]

Well the eclipse is up on stands while I am repairing a few issues she had. Long story short I have 3 motors, 1 from a 90 with an external oil cooler and 2 91+. And my water pipe has been leaking really bad on my one good motor.

So I pull the turbo off and disconnect the water pipe and remove it and I notice that the water pipe is dented at the end where the O ring is and i'm 100% sure thats why it was leaking, so I grab a water pipe off one of my other 2 blocks without even thinking throw on a new seal and put everything together.

As I finish up I'm looking around my turbo to double check its all hooked up and I notice the line coming from my (I think) oil filter housing isn't connected so I'm looking on my water pipe for the nipple... and there isn't one there.. I went through all that work and I accidentally used the water pipe from my 90 motor with no nipple for that line. My question is can I just plug that line and not have coolant flow through it? Will it hurt anything?

I really don't wanna pull the pipe off and do that all over again..

Thanks,

Maybe you could drill and tap a NPT nipple into it?

 

[->PrOjEcTGS<-]

Swap the OFH to the 90 style and setup an air cooled oil cooler. They're more reliable anyways.

 

[1gTurboTuner]

Swap the OFH to the 90 style and setup an air cooled oil cooler. They're more reliable anyways.

Hmm this did cross my mind. I'll look into it, how difficult a swap is it? Basically just unbolt my current OFH and bolt that one up?

Well I looked the swap up, it sounds time consuming but not overly difficult. I'm thinking I may go that route.

 

[->PrOjEcTGS<-]

You have to take the t-belt cover off to get to one of the bolts.

 

[Dsmx17]

You have to take the t-belt cover off to get to one of the bolts.

You can do it w/o removing the entire timing cover, just have to get creative.