[pete3799]

Don't remember what year ..... but i had to change the O rings on my oil cooler (1988 Peterbilt with a 425 Cat motor). The day i chose to do this was in the middle of winter during a cold snap parked in the snow covered hay field ( before i built my garage). I had some trouble getting the rear section to snap back over the O ring on assembly but managed to force it on with a 2x4 or pry bar or something. Filled the radiator back up and let it run for a while...... no leaks......good to go.

Leave at midnight to get a load of fuel oil in Albany, N.Y. After loading i'm headed back to Vt. and just shy of Fort Edward N.Y. my high temp. light and buzzer come on. It's around 3:30 in the morning well below zero and the only place that's going to be open is a Stewarts mini mart in Fort Edward. I pull in and anti freeze is pouring onto the ground from the oil cooler. Shut the truck off and figure i must have pinched the O ring when i pried the cooler back together.

So i go inside and figure i'll have a hot coffee and ponder my situation while my truck is quickly cooling down to sub zero. As i explain my situation the the girl at the counter, as i pay for my coffee, i spy a tube of Crazy Glue over her shoulder on a peg board display rack. The wheels start turning...... I said give me that tube of glue too.

I've already lost all my anti freeze at this point so on with the coveralls and off with the oil cooler. Sure enough the O ring is ripped but it's a clean break so back into the store to warm up and glue the O ring. After it dried i put everything back together, went back in and bought a mess of anti freeze, dumped it in and away i went.
After unloading i stopped at Cat and got a new O ring.......i still have it....the one i glued never leaked.....it was still in there 3 years later when i sold it.