Patent ID: 7992622

Claim:
A radiator assembly in a vehicle cooling system including an oil cooler assembly comprising: a radiator including an inlet header tank having an outer wall with at least one inlet cooler opening therein disposed about an inlet axis, an oil cooler disposed within said inlet header tank, at least one fitting extending into said inlet cooler opening for interconnecting said oil cooler and said header tank of said radiator, a clip for retaining said at least one fitting to said header tank, at least one track extending from said outer wall within said header tank, said clip extending between said at least one track and said at least one fitting within said header tank, said clip configured to bias said at least one fitting into engagement with said outer wall of said header tank in a direction along said inlet axis wherein said outer wall of the header tank includes a pair of tracks extending in spaced and parallel relationship with each other on opposite sides of said at least one fitting; wherein each of said tracks includes a back surface extending diagonally downward from said outer wall toward said at least one fitting, and a ledge extending from said back surface toward said at least one fitting, said clip engaging said ledge; wherein each of said ledges includes a ramp for receiving said clip onto said ledge of said tracks; wherein said at least one fitting includes a clip-groove radially aligned with said ledge of said tracks when disposed in said cooler opening; wherein said clip is U-Shaped having parallel legs with each leg extending between one of said clip-grooves and an adjacent one of said ledges for retaining said at least one fitting in engagement with said outer wall of said header tank; and, wherein each of said legs has a Z-shaped cross-section defining an upper flange in engagement with said clip-groove and a lower flange in engagement with said ledge and a slanted section interconnecting said flanges for biasing said at least one fitting into engagement with said outer wall of said header tank.