Most likely what you were looking at was an air conditioner condenser. None
of the air cooled Vanagon engines had any factory remote oil cooling.  The
stock oil works well for most situations and cooler oil does little to
prevent the melted heads, burnt pistons, dropped valve seats, warped cases
and all the other good stuff these engines are capable of.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Mark Hineline
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 8:49 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
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