If you have a cooler thermostat with a matched fan switch... then your water
that does the cooling will be cooler...

>From: Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
>
>What is overheating? The coolant or the oil. This will do nothing to
>lower the water temp and the effect on oil temp will not be that great
>as you will still be using hot water to cool the oil. High loads and
>speeds will still drive the oil temp higher than the coolant temp.
>
>Dennis
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
>Of Wolfburger
>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 11:37 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Oil cooler upgrade for WBX 2.1L
>
>Greetings Listees!
>
>I'm thinking about ways to keep the toaster-oven-on-wheels from
>overheating. Is the cooler from Dieselgeek, a good option? How much work
>is this to install? Is this worth the money?
>
>http://www.dieselgeek.com/oilcooler.htm
>
>Any insight is appreciated.
>
>Josh
>'89 Wolfy
>Fall City, WA

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