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On 4 Sep 2004 at 21:00, phil cain wrote: > Joel, I know that I must put my flame suit on for this one, but I, > myself find it much easer to pull the engine to get to the oil cooler, > the parts to be removed come off without hurting yourself with the > engine out where you can get to it. To pull the engine only takes about > thirty minutes if you take your time, and about the same to put it back > in. O.K. let me have it from you guys that pull the oil cooler without > pulling the engine. I agree that it's a pain to get at everything with the engine in the car, but for most people, who don't have access to a lift, I still think it's easier to do this in the car. At Hershey we took John J's engine out to replace a clutch disk. We had all the tools and jacks that we needed plus a virtually unlimited pool of eager labor. I think it still took us nearly 4 hours to do that job. This was on a swing axle carbed car with the heaters attached. It goes faster if the heater hoses are not there. A swing axle carbed car with the heaters missing would be the easiest. An IRS FI car with the heaters attached would be the hardest. Frankly, I don't think this is too hard a job with the engine in place. The only hard part is getting some of the rusted screws out, and you have to do that either way. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Shameless link for search engines: http://listarchive.type3.org ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~