Lubrication cooling system for a vehicle

A vehicle for transporting a person, the vehicle including

• a chassis;
• an engine supported by the chassis and providing power to the propel the chassis, the engine including an engine housing and a lubricant;
• and
• a lubricant cooler mounted on the engine housing, the lubricant cooler including a cooler housing defining an interior space for the lubricant and a plurality of heat fins dissipating heat from the lubricant to air passing over the heat fins, wherein the engine housing includes a first inlet passage, a first outlet passage, a second inlet passage, a second outlet passage, and a third outlet passage in fluid communication with the second lubricant inlet passage, the interior space of the lubricant cooler is in communication with the first outlet passage and the third outlet passage, the vehicle is convertible between a first configuration wherein each of the second outlet passage and the second inlet passage is blocked with a plug and the lubricant flows from the engine housing to the interior space via first outlet passage and the interior volume receives the lubricant via the first inlet passage, and a second configuration wherein the first outlet passage is blocked with one of the plugs and both the second outlet passage and the second inlet passage are adapted to fluidly and remotely couple a second lubricant cooler to the engine housing.

A vehicle including:

• an engine providing power to propel the vehicle, the engine including an engine housing defining an interior volume, the engine housing including a first passage in fluid communication with the interior volume, a second passage in fluid communication with the interior volume, a third passage, a fourth passage in fluid communication with the interior volume, and a fifth passage in fluid communication with the second lubricant inlet passage;
• a first lubricant cooler mounted on the engine housing, the first lubricant cooler including a cooler housing defining an interior space and a plurality of heat fins, the interior space of the cooler housing in fluid communication with the second and fifth passages;
• and
• a lubricant fluid circulating between the interior volume of the engine housing and the interior space of the cooler housing;
• the vehicle being convertible between a first configuration and a second configuration,
• wherein in the first configuration each of the third and fourth passages are blocked with a plug, and the lubricant fluid flows between the interior volume and the interior space via the second passage, the plurality of heat fins dissipating heat from the lubricant fluid in the interior space of cooler housing to air passing over the plurality heat fins, and the first passage communicates lubricant fluid with the interior volume;
• and
• wherein in the second configuration the second passage is blocked with one of the plugs, the third and fourth passages are fluidly and remotely engagable with a second lubricant cooler, the fourth passage capable of communicating the lubricant fluid from the interior volume to the second lubricant cooler, the third passage capable of communicating lubricant with the second lubricant cooler, and the interior space of the first lubricant cooler communicates the lubricant fluid with the fifth passage.