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On 9 Jul 97, Ray Peterson wrote: > For what it is worth, When I rebuilt my motor for my '66, there was > a piece of tin that went under the cooler (between the cooler and > cylinders). By the shape of it though, I can't think of how it would > effect the cooling, it acted more like a washer for the two cooler > bolts. Reading this again and thinking about it I realized that there actually was a very small piece there on the early cars. It was about 3/4" x 3" and had two ears that the two bolts passed through. I have never found one of these on an engine that had previously been rebuilt by anyone but me. I do know that they were there originally, but they have all been left off and lost. I may still have one NOS, but it is not for sale. They became NLA in the 70s. In addition, early cars (-69) have 3 thick washers between the block and the oil cooler. Late type IIIs (70-) have none. Very early (??) engines have a different arrangement with a two-piece cooler and stand. It was a bugger because if you forgot it, you had to pull the > cylinders to get the bolts through the engine block bracket from the > underside. Now guess how I found this out? :-) Too bad you had to learn the same way the rest of us did. When I start to get close to that point in an engine assembly, I now insert the 2 bolts from below and hold them in place with a bit of masking tape wrapped around both shanks. This gets torn off before I install the oil cooler, but AFTER the P/Cs and heads are in place. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- Melissa Kepner Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org jadney@vwtype3.org Laura Kepner-Adney Madison, Wisconsin ---------------------------------------------------------------------