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After removing the AC compressor, winch disconnect, alternator, and turbo assembly. You finally gain access to the filter housing that has the oil cooler behind it. Pay attention...
3126B oil cooler warped, bad gasket, both…..lots to talk about.
In preparation I purchased all the gaskets and o-rings from caterpillar here are all the drawings and part numbers you’ll need to do the job. Also grabbed a can a CAT paint.
I ended up not using item 1 or 8 in the picture above...
I can’t answer for him but the same sealer meritor uses on the third member/ pumpkin/center chunk. It does a great job of sealing and when it comes to disassembling it breaks away much easier than RTV.
Thanks, With all the parts individually I plan to go to Cat tomorrow and see if they have a kit that has most of the parts then purchase what’s missing individually.
I’ll visually look at the existing gasket. It took forever to find that thing. It was in a turbocharger install kit from cat and in the kit all the o-rings and gaskets that I had posted in the image earlier. Which gave me confidence that this is correct for our engine. Plus the last image it...
It looks like the filter housing is one piece.
Item #2 is this gasket.
I see the 4 o-rings but you also mentioned the filter head o-rings. Those kits earlier had way more o-rings. Plus on of the kits it has a small flat gasket with 3 holes. I think that’s for turbo drain to the block which I...
Striking out here. I want to be sure I have all the correct parts. Is there an exploded view of all the parts somewhere? I don't want to open it all up then order parts. Need to have them on hand for quick reassembly.
Searching parts on Cats website is terrible, but I’m trying then I thought instead of individual parts there should be a kit. Came across these but now I’m confused the find it parts shows 3 different gaskets but cat showed the top gasket and 2 of the middle gaskets like the second image. I...