off with the oil cooler

[steptoe]

it's only pressure that pushes the oil up to it,, make a small hose round the front of the filter housing, or behind it,, can't see it being an issue,, like you say plenty of other bikes don't have them,, my GSX 11 didn't,, and ran fine in stifling QLD out back heat

[Jonesy]

After meeting PeteJW recently, we had a brief discussion on taking off the oil cooler. So now I'm just wondering if anyone out there has actually done this. and what mods had to be made?
After all it was the only bike I know of from that era that ran one and was probably overkill since the 11 donk has all the air cooling fins and simillar oil capacity to many other era bikes.
In an emergency for example if you wrote off the heat exchanger maybe you could use the existing fittings that bolt on above the filter housing and run a short hose between the 2 ?

Jonesy