Oil Cooler Pipes Removal and Installation

Oil Cooler Pipes Removal and Installation
Removal
1. Lift up vehicle.
2. Make sure to wash dirt off from around pipe joints.
3. When engine is cool, loosen oil cooler pipe union bolts with oil outlet union locked and remove oil cooler pipes (1) from oil outlet union and hoses.

NOTE: To avoid fluid leakage, plug open ends of oil outlet unions and hoses right after they are disconnected.

Installation
1. Use new union gaskets and connect oil cooler pipes to oil outlet unions.
2. Connect hoses to pipes and clamp them securely.
3. Tighten union bolts (2) to specified torque with oil outlet union locked.

Tightening torque
Oil cooler pipe union bolt a: 25 Nm (2.5 kg-m, 18.0 ft. lbs.)

4. Tighten pipe clamp bolt (3) with specified torque.





5. Check A/T fluid level according to procedure described in A/T Fluid Change.
6. Check for fluid leakage after warming up A/T.