Mary Beth and Chris Geiser wrote:
>
> The top of the oil cooler is the side with little protrusions in a circle to
> meet the bottom of the part from the engine.  The bottom of the oil cooler
> is the smooth side which comes in contact and is sealed by the rubber gasket
> on the oil filter.  Bentley doesn't specify a torque for that nut to hold it
> on, so I made it comfortably tight.

25 Nm or about 18 ft.lbs. is the spec.

> Never saw a gasket between the engine
> part and the oil cooler part when I changed mine, but it might have stuck up
> there and I didn't notice it either.

The sealing ring Michael speaks of goes here.  The Workshop Manual for
the 1.9 diesels says: "coat contact surface to oil filter bracket
outside sealing ring with AMV 188 100 02.  I use Permatex Form-a-gasket
here and it works well.

-Dana-

> Either way mine doesn't leak :)
> Hope that helps,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Rachel Cogent
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 9:47 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Diesel Assembly Confusion.
>
> Please advise:
> I am now assembling my '83 1.6D engine but have a snag.
> There is a heat exchanger between the oil filter mount and the filter.
>
> Q: What exactly does this exchanger do?
>
> This metal box has two hoses going in and out and is held on by a large
> threaded tube which the filter screws into at the lower end.
>
> Q: Which is the pressure end, this tube or the outside?
>
> The gasket set I have which is very complete does not have a sealer for the
> top of the exchanger and I don't remember how it looked when I took it
> apart.
>
> Q: Is this exchanger even standard equipment?
>
> It seems like there should be some copper rings or something for the metal
> contacting parts but no such sizes are found. Does anyone have an exploded
> picture of this assembly that can explain to me what to do?
>
> Thank you for any help here.
>
>                             Rachel