Date:         Tue, 14 May 2002 05:33:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Dana Morphew <kadm@PUGETSOUND.NET>
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From:         Dana Morphew <kadm@PUGETSOUND.NET>
Organization: Dana's Mobile Carpet Steam
Subject:      Re: Bus for sale....(which year is best)
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Hmmm...wonder why the name was applied to the dualport.  Is it because
the cooler was "in the doghouse", so to speak, because of its separate
quarters? The bulge in the shroud front doesn't make it look anymore
like a doghouse than the singleport shroud does.

-Dana-

> The doghouse erefers to the later type Bug oilcooler, which lived in
> a small housing on the front-left of the dual-port 1.6 engine's
> fanshroud. Earlier (single-port) engines had the cooler within the
> shroud and were NOT doghouse). Single-port engines can be retrofitted
> with doghouse cooler and shroud, which I did for my 1.6.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut