oil pressure regulator

[IDIoit]

whats up guys.
need a oil cooler for my current build.
i have a few different ones.
im running a turbo center tube for the cooler.


my question is...has anyone came up with a way to hydraulicly test the regulator?

 

[Booyah45828]

I haven't. But aren't you the guy that has the steel plate to test oil cooler assemblies for leakage? Wouldn't take much more to add additional ports and use an air pressure regulator to see what psi it opens at.

If you aren't, the picture I saw used 1/4" inch steel plate that held the 2 ends together, and had ports that you could pressurize the oil and air sections of the cooler, while checking for leaks. Now I gotta find the pic back.

 

[IDIoit]

I haven't. But aren't you the guy that has the steel plate to test oil cooler assemblies for leakage? Wouldn't take much more to add additional ports and use an air pressure regulator to see what psi it opens at.

If you aren't, the picture I saw used 1/4" inch steel plate that held the 2 ends together, and had ports that you could pressurize the oil and air sections of the cooler, while checking for leaks. Now I gotta find the pic back.

i am.
same answer i got on another site.
except just gotta charge the the port with the valve.
ive got a rubber plug and a regulator to an air chuck.
just havnt gotten to it yet

 

[Booyah45828]

I don't think you have to pressurize that port to test it. Just have a hole in your plate where the valve is. Pack the valve with grease, screw a filter on the head, then pressurize the oil side of the equation until you get air out the hole. I assume your plate can pressurize the oil side? they typically leak oil to coolant which is why I always thought you pressurize that side when leak checking the bundle.

I wouldn't think it would require pressurized oil to test, air would suffice, so long as you have some sort of grease sealing it.

Or am I oversimplifying this?