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Subject:Oil cooler in 1980-1982 aircooled buses?
From:Mark Hineline
Date:Mon, 6 Sep 2010 17:49:10 -0700

I have a 1982 Westy (brown) that was originally a diesel, but has been
changed to an aircooled engine.

When I was down at the junkyards, I looked over two aircooled
Vanagons. Both of them have oil coolers in the nose, under the
lighting grill. They don't have a radiator grill like mine does.

My nose is basically empty: no radiator left from the diesel, no oil
cooler.

Should I run-not-walk down to the yards and get one of those oil
coolers (and mounts)? Was the stock in-the-fan cooler adequate for
this behemoth?

Mark
Peregrine fille
San Diego, CA

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