I've had two air-cooled Vanagons (one of them purchased new in 1981) and
know for sure that there's no oil cooler other than the one tucked away
under the engine tin.  Don't know what you saw in that junkyard.  Pumping
oil all the way from the rear of the vehicle to the nose and then back just
doesn't make sense and most add-on oil coolers for the air-cooled Vanagons
housed the new cooler somewhere in the rear of the van.

Where were those junkyards, by the way?  I'm looking for a part.

Tom Young
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hineline" <hineline@OCOTILLOFIELD.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 5:49 PM
Subject: Oil cooler in 1980-1982 aircooled buses?

>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
>