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The Artist formerly known as Turbo84
I'm planning on finally putting a cooler in the system over the winter. I'm not a big fan of the normal cooler placement (downstream of the rack), as it just seems like the fluid gets all heated up in the pump while driving down the straights, and then the hot fluid gets sent straight to the rack, and after heating up the rack it gets sent through the cooler. This all seems incredibly inefficient (regarding trying to keep the rack cool).
I'm curious. What would be the downside(s) to putting a Tee fitting in the pump outlet, with one line going straight to the rack, and the other line (with a small pressure-dropping orifice at the Tee fitting outlet) running to the p/s cooler in front of the radiator? This would keep the normal path for fluid to the rack, for normal steering operation, but the extra loop would allow a continuous flow of the hot fluid through the cooler, allowing heat to continually be removed. (There would obviously be two return lines going back to the pump reservoir.
One downside is that there are now twice as many lines to possibly leak. Another is that there would possibly be some loss of steering boost/assist, depending on how much fluid is shunted to the cooler line. Are there others I'm not recognizing at the moment?
Thanks for any constructive input.
I'm curious. What would be the downside(s) to putting a Tee fitting in the pump outlet, with one line going straight to the rack, and the other line (with a small pressure-dropping orifice at the Tee fitting outlet) running to the p/s cooler in front of the radiator? This would keep the normal path for fluid to the rack, for normal steering operation, but the extra loop would allow a continuous flow of the hot fluid through the cooler, allowing heat to continually be removed. (There would obviously be two return lines going back to the pump reservoir.
One downside is that there are now twice as many lines to possibly leak. Another is that there would possibly be some loss of steering boost/assist, depending on how much fluid is shunted to the cooler line. Are there others I'm not recognizing at the moment?
Thanks for any constructive input.