Oil cooler delete question

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Good idea!! Hey you’re a smart guy you may know. Can I tap into my engine oil cooler lines to feed and return oil from my turbocharger? It only takes a tiny amount of oil to feed the turbo. Probably not the drain, I would want that to be a separate line directly to the pan for return from the turbo. But in theory I can run the oil feed to the turbo from anywhere.
There is a capped port on the adapter, but I have never chased its souce to know if it is on the filtered oil side or not. I never have looked at the adapter that closely either to know if the oil cooler supply is filtered or not. Personally I would pull it off the fitting in the block 2" above the oil filter, I know it is filtered. Move the sending unit to the port behind the distributor if it is in the lower port currently. I prefer the later TBI/Vortec style 3 wire sending unit/oil pressure switch myself vs the large single wire pressure sender canister and seperate 2 wire pressure switch on the earlier TBIs. My 83 and 87s have both have had the 3 wire sensors retrofitted. The 83 got it when it was carbureted and I used the fuel pump switch portion as the choke power supply. I had replaced the stupid choke switch like 3 times before I figured out that I could use the newer sending unit. It is one less sending unit to leak. I returned oil to the fuel pump block off plate on a Amsoil Bypass setup. Got a thick aluminum Moroso block off plate, drilled and tapped it for a NPT thread.
 
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as always great info thanks
I should clarify, the capped port is on the 2wd adapters I have. Reasonably certain the 4x4 ones have it as well. I think it was part of the factory machining operation on the adapter similar to the plug under the driver cylinder head that often gets forgotten in small block rebuilds.
 

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Trucks never used to have them and were fine. I know when I took mine off, I gained 10 psi of oil pressure.
 

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I want to delete my oil cooler lines, what do I need to block off the radiator ?
At first I used plastic threaded plugs but I replaced them with oil pan drain plugs.
I dont remember if they were honda or nissan but there is a metric thread pitch plug that will work.
I think I bought them from the dorman "help" section at O reillys.
 

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Funny I gained about 15 psi putting it on.
I gained probably 20 psi after removing mine off of a 350 K2500 using the Melling adapter & a PF454 oil filter. No more leaks but my oil consumption went thru the roof & coolant temp dropped. Could that be because of oil flooding somewhere internally? I'm actually thinking of rebuilding & replacing the lines.
 
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