Help on oil cooler lines for '72

[KevinG]

I need to install a fender oil cooler in my '72 that came without the cooler. Original lines are nearly impossible to find. IMO the aeroquip hoses look tacky - the only pics I have seen of installations show them as visible. Elephant lines are cool but really expensive and they don't make them for a '72.

Question - can other year's oil lines be adapted to use with a '72? I don't really know where the differences lie, but I suspect that short sections of Aeroquip hoses may be used to adapt the setup.

Question 2 - Can copper pipe (rigid or flex) be used to fab up a set if the answer to question 1 is no?

Thanks for the help!

[pwd72s]

Kevin, I don't really have an answer other than to suggest beating the bushes high & low for a used set. I know Jeff Smith found a set years ago, but they are scarce. Funny aside here...he found them in the Southwest. HIs dad hauled them home for him atop a motorhome...the old oil blew through the lines, all over the motor home. Jeff got to wax and wash a motorhome as a shipping fee. Probably worth it. I would suggest a diligent search of Southern wrecking yards...just because it would be more likely that dealers back then would have ordered the cooler as an option on T's and E's. The cooler was standard on all the "S" models that year, but not many made it to the USA...278 coupes and 258 Targas, according to an article Bruce Anderson published in the S registry's newsletter... You might also email Chuck Moreland @ elephant racing...he may have a soultion, but as you said, it wouldn't be cheap. The good stuff seldom is.