{"id":4229,"date":"2018-11-11T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2018-11-15T06:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T06:59:23","slug":"added-oil-cooler-quick-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2018\/11\/11\/added-oil-cooler-quick-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Added Oil Cooler Quick Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saf-Air recently released an adaptor that allows you to add a quick drain to an AN fitting. My oil cooler has a tee fitting at the lowest point that I installed a cap on, but draining the oil from this point was always a bit of a pain. The adaptor lets me replace the cap with a quick drain that I can attach a hose to.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my oil cooler was too close to the firewall for me to install it directly on the tee, so I needed to add a 90\u00ba fitting to point the assembly downward. I assembled the pieces on the bench since it was much easier to safety wire this way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4216\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0610-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then installed the assembly to the tee on the lower port of the oil cooler.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4217\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0611-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quick drain points slightly forward and nicely clears the engine mount and brake line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4218\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"938\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612-150x113.jpg 150w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0612-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saf-Air recently released an adaptor that allows you to add a quick drain to an AN fitting. My oil cooler has a tee fitting at the lowest point that I installed a cap on, but draining the oil from this point was always a bit of a pain. The adaptor lets me replace the cap &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2018\/11\/11\/added-oil-cooler-quick-drain\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firewall-forward","category-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}