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Good to do that... and Ill bet if your oil cooler had been seeping at all its fins would be plugged solid with dirt too... common on old engines. keith > I spent some more time with my new girl this weekend. I am really glad that > I pulled the engine to check for other critter nests and such. When I pulled > the cooling tin off, the left bank of cylinders had lots of accumulated dirt > and bits blocking a large precentage of the coolng fins...espcially under the > oil cooler. The right bank had a large mouse nest built on top of them. I > am sure that more than 90% of the cooling air flow would have been blocked by > this nest. I doubt that the engine would have lasted very long with these > blockages in there. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe