Congratulations! You are well on the way to becoming a certified DIY Vanagon mechanic, where necessity is often the mother of invention, along with her sisters, ingenuity and ruby goldberg. I have used Channel-Lock pliers to tighten that nut. Jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Maglott" <emaglott@BUNCOMBE.MAIN.NC.US> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 11:08 AM Subject: Re: replacing oil cooler O-ring
> I replaced my O-ring. took off my oil filter and decided that I needed to > buy a 27mm socket to get that nut off. Came back from flaps and found that > I didn't actually need any socket, because the nut was actually > loose! Maybe I could have just tightened it and fixed the problem, but > since I was this far, decided to replace it anyway. Others may find that > the nut just needs tightening. I next went about trying to remove the pipe > that goes up through the oil cooler. I didn't have another nut to use as a > lock nut, so I cut the top off of an oil filter, and used that. That pipe > was pretty tight, but it came out. Then there was actually plenty of slack > in the hoses to move the oil cooler, pull out the old O-ring, and put the > new one on. Put it all back together and torqued the nut to 18 > ft/lb. Haven't tested it yet because I realized I don't have oil to put > back into the crankcase--D'oh! > Edward |
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