The old oil cooler on my daily driver 15ยบ ABA had at least 60,000 miles on it when I bought the engine. I used that cooler for about 8 years (sorry. No accurate mileage). Some time after the cooler O ring started leaking, I replaced the cooler. My guess is that by design, maybe, the failing O ring gives a person a chance to at least inspect part of the cooler. My cooler had some cracks starting at O ring area. Image: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8vVSmhGpVnPhpgyq1 close up https://photos.app.goo.gl/aGHZESQCy2ikwmzq1 In part, based upon list advice, I replaced the cooler. The new cooler has been fine for at least 15,000 miles. That said, other than signs of coolant/oil mixing, I don't know what warning signs one would see if there was an internal failure developing. I'm sure its possible for a manufacturer to make inferior parts or have a run of inferior parts. WBX coolant expansion tanks come to mind. I had considered installing an external cooler on this swap I'm busying doing but my other ABA seems to be fine with the stock oil cooler. We'll see if I eat my words here but I'm confident the stock oil cooler on this next swap will suffice. Oh that reminds me < adds cooler to parts list > ;) Neil. On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: ..... >
> Of course everyone that has had an oil cooler failure will post at how > unreliable they are. There simply isn't a 100 percent failure rate unless > something is wrong. Yes they sometimes fail but so do tires and we are > giving up on them yet. > > I for one do like to replace them with a direct to air cooling system, an > external oil cooler. ..... >
> > > > > > From: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> > > > Date: October 23, 2017 at 22:46:50 CDT > > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > > Subject: Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more > > > Reply-To: Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> > >
> > > Did you buy that 2 year old cooler new? >
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