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Mysterytrain - Ron

Experienced oil leak after latest rebuild, with engine in, just sitting - hadn't even started it yet.

Just performed partial engine drop, due to apparent leak at the oil cooler, assuming I must have not set the gaskets right, probably leaking around the bottom seal.

What I found - same as your Behr cooler: bad weld leak where the bottom aluminum cross tube mates to the cooler. Looking at it close - it sucks that there's not really much of a weld there at all.

How has the JB weld patch in that location held up in the following years?
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