It’s a good day when you come home to be greeted by a package from Bonneville Performance! Wooohoooo! Today was such a day! Right there on my porch in a nice brown box with the distinctive Bonneville Performance logo on it was my new BP Oil Cooler Kit!

Unpacking the contents I found:

• 2 – T6 aluminum turbulated oil cooler tubes, anodized black
• 4 – black hoses and fittings
• 4 – Billet aluminum mounting brackets and hardware

April 13, 2014 Update

I printed and followed the BP Oil Cooler Instructions available on the Bonneville Performance website.

1. I jacked up and secured the Bonneville on my shop jack stand.

2. I drained the oil and removed the oil filter and then replaced them with a new K&N filter and drain plug crush washer. Then I removed the entire exhaust system instead of doing Step 5 below.

3. I removed the bottom oil cooling system A/N fitting.

4. Remove top banjo bolts from cam cooler fittings.

5. Remove left or right side exhaust header to allow for the removal of the stock oil cooler. (I removed the entire exhaust system first).

6. Remove fasteners that connect the stock cooler to the motorcycle frame. There were three mounting bolts on mine, one center top and two on the bottom. These came off easily with an 8mm socket.

7. Check clearances and remove the stock cooler through the side where you have removed the header pipe (Mine was easy since the headers were not in the way).

In my case I also removed the backing plate where the top oil cooler mounting bracket was attached, and cut it off since I never plan to put the stock cooler back on.

8. Using Teflon pipe thread tape fasten the dash 6 – 3/8 fittings onto each end on the cooling tubes (This was already done for me by BP).

9. Insert and fasten the 14 mm top engine fittings (blue) with provided copper crush washers.

10. Insert and fasten the bottom 18 mm engine fitting with copper crush washer.

11. Place T-fitting on bottom engine fitting and hand-tighten only.

12. Attach the 2-bottom swedged lines to the T-fitting—hand-tighten only at this time.

13. Attach the top swedged lines to the top engine fittings—hand- tighten only at this time.

14. Attach each cooling tube to the top and bottom lines—hand-tighten only at this time.

15. Place the top frame clamp in the position on each cooling tube and position on the frame down tube and fasten the clamps loosely.

16. Once the cooling tubes are correctly and evenly aligned with the frame down tubes fasten the clamps securely to the frame tubes—insure that your top and bottom lines are not twisted or crimped.

17. Check the positioning of the lines and insure that each A/N fitting is hand tightened and your lines are clocked in the correct position.

18. Now tighten each line fitting on the top and bottom one-quarter turn with a 17 mm wrench—a quarter turn should suffice–if you over tighten these fittings you may damage the internal passage.

19. Check alignment and securely fasten each of the frame clamps.

April 20, 2014 Update

It is done! Works like a charm… no leaks!