Well spend the time putting the OEM cooler back in or spend a thousand or so
later on.
It's your choice ............... leave Saturday.

Stan Wilder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Emmert-Keaton" <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Oil cooler

> Guys, thanks for the input. I know just enough to know that y'all know a
lot
> more than I do and I'm definitely hearing what you're telling me, but this
> is where I am right now.  The van leaves from Las Vegas for San Francisco
> Friday night.  If it isn't ready, I'll have to take a bus or hitchhike.
> I've got a 96 pass Empi cooler with an integrated fan.  It's bolted under
> the van.  I've totally dismantled the cooling tin, cleaned the grime out
of
> the fins, removed the stock cooler, added the adapter, cut holes for the
> hoses and reassembled everything.  The only thing left is to route the
hoses
> to the cooler, wire the fan and thermostat that controls it, and fill the
> van with oil.  I really can't tear back into it all now since I don't
enough
> time before Friday.
>
> I want to learn and would love to hear your advice.  What kind of trouble
am
> I looking at by removing the old cooler and replacing it with a new higher
> capacity one?  I don't want to risk my van, but I'm too far down this road
> to turn around right now unless it's a definite dead end.  Any input on
this
> would really be appreciated.
>
> Please cc me directly with any responses.
>
> Thanks again,
> Skip
> 1980 Westy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:17 PM
> To: Skip Emmert-Keaton; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Oil cooler
>
>
> Use a Mazda RX7 oil cooler.
> It has plenty of capacity and a built in 147 degree thermostat.
> You can usually find them on E bay because lots of racers use them.
> I'd suggest that you get back in there and put the stock cooler back in
> there ................. you're just asking for trouble by removing it.
>
> Stan Wilder
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Skip Emmert-Keaton" <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:41 PM
> Subject: Oil cooler
>
>
> > I'm adding an oil cooler to my 1980 air-cooled Westy and want to add a
> > thermostat upstream of the cooler.  I've removed the stock cooler and
run
> > lines from an adapter there.  Does anyone know whether the top or bottom
> > hole is oil out?
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> > Skip