ok...so im out swapping all the parts off my old engine onto my new engine like the distributor, alternator, water pump, things like that...and i get to the oil filter assembly...well...all goes well with the top of the assembly...it came right off...but as i was trying to remove the line for the lower assembly (the metal line that runs from the lower assembly piece to the oil pump) and it got twisted up and broke

i have everything ready now except for that damned part...anybody got one they could spare???

 

Dude that sucks... i hate it when crap like that happens...

 

I have one, but havent seen it in a while. If you get no help on it, PM me and Ill see if I can locate it.

 

thats pretty crappy... i got my 86 oil cooler from atkins dan the other day, mocked it up yesterday, hopefully going monday to get lines built at a hydraulics shop... it'll turn out cheaper than even stock lines, so its all good...

 

thx carl...im hopin someone local will come thru for me right now...but ill definately get back to you if nobody does

CMON GUYS WITH BLOWN ENGINES! (83-85 12a) you know that that oil line really wants to be on my 1/2 bridgeported engine...dont deny it the pleasure!!!

 

if ya pm Ians i bet he has one sitting around. He just stripped out a couple cars and has crap laying all over the place. Good luck man

 

If you are going bp, then i suggest adding a 2nd gen FMOC. That's what I did with mine. It will give you that much more cooling for that higher rpm band.

 

Absolutely. That "beehive" style oil cooler that you're currently running is the leading cause of shorter engine life in the '83 to '85 12A-powered 1st gens, paticularly if you drive your car as hard as it was meant to be driven and if you live in warmer climes. Oil cooling accounts for 1/3rd of the heat drawn away from these engines--- not a good place to be cutting corners. That's why Mazda dropped this style of oil cooler after only three years.

Pick up a "short" rad and under-rad air-to-oil type oil cooler from a '79 to '82 1st gen, or just the cooler from an '84 to '85 GSL-SE or a 2nd gen and swap it in. This will eliminate the need for that metal tube you just trashed since the under-rad oil cooler uses two flex hoses instead. The swap can be made in an afternoon on a sunny day in the back yard.

BTW, if you go this route, spring for the five bucks needed to buy new crush washers for each end of the flex hoses. Nothing so sad as a cracked oil cooler housing caused by cheaping out and trying to use the old washers--- only to find that the extra wrench torque required to make them seal cracked the oil cooler. Welding these costs $60, but only if the shop doesn't have to do the re and re.