Seeing Alistair's photos, with the new oil cooler neatly capped, plus the recent
thread about CV joints, reminded me of when I used to work at the Naval Aviation
Depot, North Island, where they overhauled Navy aircraft. They had an infinite variety
of plastic caps, plugs, etc., and anytime a system was opened, whether hydraulic, air,
fuel, whatever, it was capped or plugged to keep out foreign objects until they were
ready to re-assemble. Think FOD if you are ex-military.
It may not be a matter of life or death on a Vanagon, but it could be a cause of
failure down the road if you leave the part lying around the garage and a bug crawls
inside a fuel, propane, coolant, oil, refrigerant or other line.
So cap it, plug it, tape it or bag it.
Or if you live in Yuma AZ, a Harrier jet could drop out of the sky on top of your
Vanagon.
Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@UVIC.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 4:05 PM
Subject: oil cooler replacement pics

> If you have ever wondered what the inside of the stock oil-water heat
> exchanger/cooler/whatever looks like, wonder no more. I cut one open
> and took pics:
>
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/McTavishPac/oil%20cooler/oilcooler.html
>
>
> Alistair
>
>
> '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
> http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/
>