Suggestion: buy a 96 plate transmission oil cooler, mount it up front
with a sucker fan, and run 1/2" copper lines to an oil thermostat and
filter hooked in with an oil filter block off. Get a hose-maker to
create the fittings/flexible lines.

I have the thermostat and filter mounted on the flat horizontal surface
under the driver's side fender, and the oil lines and cooler in place,
but haven't completed the install since the motor is brand new. I'll
know the outcome in about 3 weeks; running cheap oil and PH8A until
break-in is done.

Bringing your ideas to life, 
G. Matthew Bulley 
Bulley-Hewlett 
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com 
AIM = IExplain4u 
Phone: +1.919.658.1278 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of westydriver
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:13 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: � � � Some Clarifications and Additional Cooling System
Comments

my air  cooled will put the oil temp needle all the way over on the
high passes.  30 in second in my poor little 82westy.  in the spring i
am redoing the oil cooler with a blower fan and possibly a mister.  a
little thing that a lot of WC people dont think about is that their oil
is going way up in temps as  well.
jimt

On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 14:02 America/Denver, Kim Brennan wrote:

> In a message dated 10/2/02 3:52:18 PM, normally knowledgable
> FrankGRUN@AOL.COM writes:
>
>
>> I have not yet seen the situation in which the second fan
>> speed cannot control any thermal situation.
>>
>
> I have. Encountered it while taking my Westy Syncro up Monarch pass
> (US 50 in
> Colorado). I tried to maintain 30mph in 2nd gear. The engine was
> willing, but
> the cooling system was not up to the task. Altitude and load
> contributed to
> the situation where the high speed fan just couldn't cool it enough.
>