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Date:         Wed, 21 Apr 2004 17:43:24 -0700
Reply-To:     Skip Emmert-Keaton <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Skip Emmert-Keaton <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil cooler
Comments: To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To:  <003c01c427ff$23c93870$04d05e44@none9c7r46o4i1>
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Guys, thanks for the input. I know just enough to know that y'all know a lot more than I do and I'm definitely hearing what you're telling me, but this is where I am right now. The van leaves from Las Vegas for San Francisco Friday night. If it isn't ready, I'll have to take a bus or hitchhike. I've got a 96 pass Empi cooler with an integrated fan. It's bolted under the van. I've totally dismantled the cooling tin, cleaned the grime out of the fins, removed the stock cooler, added the adapter, cut holes for the hoses and reassembled everything. The only thing left is to route the hoses to the cooler, wire the fan and thermostat that controls it, and fill the van with oil. I really can't tear back into it all now since I don't enough time before Friday.

I want to learn and would love to hear your advice. What kind of trouble am I looking at by removing the old cooler and replacing it with a new higher capacity one? I don't want to risk my van, but I'm too far down this road to turn around right now unless it's a definite dead end. Any input on this would really be appreciated.

Please cc me directly with any responses.

Thanks again, Skip 1980 Westy

-----Original Message----- From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:17 PM To: Skip Emmert-Keaton; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Oil cooler

Use a Mazda RX7 oil cooler. It has plenty of capacity and a built in 147 degree thermostat. You can usually find them on E bay because lots of racers use them. I'd suggest that you get back in there and put the stock cooler back in there ................. you're just asking for trouble by removing it.

Stan Wilder

----- Original Message ----- From: "Skip Emmert-Keaton" <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:41 PM Subject: Oil cooler

> I'm adding an oil cooler to my 1980 air-cooled Westy and want to add a > thermostat upstream of the cooler. I've removed the stock cooler and run > lines from an adapter there. Does anyone know whether the top or bottom > hole is oil out? > > Thanks for the help, > Skip


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