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Re: [T3] Oil Cooler Option


Steve Glavas wrote:
"Do you have oil temp woes?  Check this link out.  I'm sure some of you
may have already seen this site:
http://www.type2.com/rvanness/oilcool.htm";

Yes, I found this too.  I have already salvaged a cooler bracked from an
Audi in a local self-service junkyard.  I was planning to do an
installation when I got a new engine for my '71 bus.  However, it's
possible but far from ideal to be working on the case at the oil cooler
on an engine that is already built; so it's not a great option if you
are already having overheating problems.  If you are having overheating
engine problems, you'd be better off fixing the cause of the
overheating, rather than using an external oil cooler, which requires
some real time to do it right.  In fact, although the external cooler
seems like a good idea for the 1600cc buses, which really put a lot of
load on the engine, I wouldn't put one on a type 3, I don't think (or on
a type 4 powered bus, for that matter).  And I should add that I
wouldn't use an external oil cooler as a replacement for an oil cooler
in the stock location, unless that one was preheating the air for the #3
cylinder (do the early type 3s do that?), and I couldn't find the later
style tin (which condition seems farfetched).

Eric Forsman, '73 Square
Baltimore, MD

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