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Subject:Re: Bus for sale....(which year is best)
From:Dana Morphew
Date:Tue, 14 May 2002 05:33:32 -0700

Hmmm...wonder why the name was applied to the dualport.  Is it because
the cooler was "in the doghouse", so to speak, because of its separate
quarters? The bulge in the shroud front doesn't make it look anymore
like a doghouse than the singleport shroud does.

-Dana-

> The doghouse erefers to the later type Bug oilcooler, which lived in
> a small housing on the front-left of the dual-port 1.6 engine's
> fanshroud. Earlier (single-port) engines had the cooler within the
> shroud and were NOT doghouse). Single-port engines can be retrofitted
> with doghouse cooler and shroud, which I did for my 1.6.
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut