Replace oil cooler while engine still in vehicle?

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm2.hf.intel.com>]

Yes!  I had a shop *replace* my oil cooler with the (big) engine still in 
the car.  I am assuming it's easier with the engine out, but I do know it 
can be done, and in one day.
     Toby Erkson
     air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L for sale
     Portland, Oregon
     http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: Re: Through thick and thin
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE
Date:    7/29/97 8:51 AM


Okay, so I put on the fat gaskets instead of the skinny gaskets under the
oil cooler on my '71 square. Bummer!

It just occurred to me to wonder (I haven't tried this before):  Can a person
remove the oil cooler with the engine still in the car?  In other words, can
you get to and remove all those fun little tin screws so you can remove the
tin and get to the cooler?

Sure would be dropping the engine.

Phil
dillard@suu.edu