Hi all: I have a VERY obscure question for the true air-cooled Vanagon expert.... I've assembled the two 2.0l Vanagon engines I'm rebuilding to the longblock stage, and I'm continuing to build one of them up to "turnkey" status. (When I snatched the engine from the '81 California donor van I also took everything in the engine compartment.) I THINK I'm missing a piece of cooling tin, one that, as I recall, goes between the right rear heating air duct and the cooling fan housing. I have a vague recollection of this piece from the last time I disassembled / reassembled my own '81 Cal Vanagon; it has an "L" shaped portion that attaches with a screw into the front (FIF) of the fan housing, requiring that you put the screw in blind, and using a stubby screwdriver because of the close quarters. A real PITA. I know I've looked for this piece in the various manuals own, and it doesn't show up in any of them. Because of its position in the engine compartment I can't see it on the current engine in the van without quite a bit of disassembly, which I don't feel like doing. Anybody recognize this bit I'm talking about? Or am I smoking my socks? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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