Find solution

How to Install a Jagg Oil Cooler XL

Since Harley-Davidson Sportster engines are air-cooled, their three quarts of oil can get very hot in the summertime, especially in desert conditions. Very hot oil is both less slippery and more easily saturated with carbon and other wastes than merely hot oil. Oil coolers increase the volume of oil circulating in the engine and improve the radiation of excess heat away from the engine. A Sportster XL requires a Jagg Slimline Oil Cooler kit. If your Sportster is a 2004 or later model you must also buy a Jagg 4400 Oil Filter Adapter.

Instructions

1

Ride the motorcycle for 30 miles until the oil gets as hot as possible. Park the bike and put on a pair of mechanics gloves.

2

Loosen the hose clamp on the oil drain line with a flat-head screwdriver. Pull the plug out of the end of the drain line with a pair of pliers drain the hot oil from the tank into a drain pan.

3

Re-plug, tighten and replace the oil drain line. Position the drain pan under the oil filter on the right front of the bike.

4

Loosen the oil filter with an oil filter wrench. Remove the filter by hand and dump as much of the oil as possible into the drain pan. Mop the spilled oil off the front of the bike with rags. Remove the gloves.

5

Cut two pieces of standard oil line, with an inside diameter of 3/8-inch and an outside diameter of 5/8-inch, approximately 18 inches long with a sharp knife. The lines must be long enough to extend from the oil filter to the middle of the left down tube.

6

Slip one end of each of the two new oil lines onto the Jagg oil filter adapter nipples. Tighten the lines to the nipples with two of the hose clamps included with the adapter kit and a flat-head screwdriver.

7

Position the O-ring included with the kit on the oil filter adapter. Slide the oil filter adapter and O-ring onto the oil filter mounting stud.

8

Spin the adapter anchor nut onto the oil filter stud and tighten with a 1-inch hex socket, socket extension and socket wrench.

9

Spin the banjo fitting included with the kit onto the oil filter stud. Spin a new oil filter onto the oil filter stud and hand tighten.

10

Attach the 1/16-inch rubber shims and the 1-1/8-inch clamps included in the oil cooler kit to the left down tube. Attach the oil cooler to the clamps with its nipples down and the cooling fins facing forward, using the supplied nuts and bolts, hex socket and socket wrench.

11

Attach the two oil lines from the oil filter adapter to the two nipples on the bottom of the oil cooler using the hose clamps included with the oil cooler kit and a flat-head screwdriver.

12

Pour three quarts of oil into the oil tank. Start the engine in neutral and run for one minute.

13

Check for oil leaks while the bike is running. Turn off the engine and check the oil level in the oil tank with the dipstick. It should be about one quart low.

14

Add oil to the oil tank as needed. Restart the engine in neutral and run for at least five minutes. Check for leaks while the motorcycle is running. Make sure the oil cooler becomes warm.

Posted by Unknown at 12:00 PM

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

Labels: a, cooler, how, install, jagg, oil, to, xl