My old man used to golf. But now here I am in one of America's
fav-o-rite golf destinations and I know no one who golfs. Need to buy a
couple polo shirts and start mingling with the golfers at some of these
resorts.

-- RJS

On Sun, 2011-05-22 at 22:15 -0700, Don Hanson wrote:

>   Every toolbox should have some Golf Tees.  Useful for temp. hose
> plugs, fuel line stoppers, etc.
>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Rocket J Squirrel
> <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>         My son and I were able to install the kit into Mellow Yellow
>         without too
>         much difficulty yesterday. But unlike others here who have
>         reported an
>         hour or so for the job, we needed four hours. This may give
>         insight into
>         my level of mechanical prowess vis a vis others here.
>
>         Overall, the instructions provided by GoWesty are probably
>         more than
>         adequate for people used to working on these vans, but for the
>         beginner,
>         they are sparse so we found we needed a lot more time to work
>         through
>         steps not well-described.
>
>         For example, there are a couple ways to disconnect the front
>         of the
>         trans from the frame. We chose not to pull the horizontal pin
>         that goes
>         through the rubber mount, and unbolted its bracket from the
>         frame
>         instead. Turned out that we would have been better off going
>         the other
>         way as that mount needs to be removed to access the lower bolt
>         on the
>         stock oil cooler. Pretty much all of the mounting bits need to
>         be
>         removed. A note about this would have been helpful.
>
>         A typo had me stumped for a bit. The cooler was first referred
>         to as the
>         "coil" cooler, then two sentences later, the "oil" cooler. I
>         wondered if
>         these were two different parts.
>
>         There are three photos of the installation on the sheet. They
>         are very
>         small and GW does not provide a link to more detailed photos
>         on their
>         site, which would have been helpful.
>
>         The cooler itself has four mounting holes and GW provides four
>         self-tapping screws to mount the thing with. But the two hose
>         fittings
>         at the one end of the cooler partially block straight-line
>         access to the
>         screw heads, making mounting difficult. We chose to drill a
>         new single
>         hole between the two fittings so we more easily mount the
>         thing. Two
>         bolts at one end, one at the other, but the one-screw end is
>         also
>         supported by the Adel clamps that hold the hoses up against
>         the
>         underside of the van's flooring.
>
>         Not too impressed with their choice of fasterners. For the
>         cooler and
>         clamp mounting GW supplied pan head phillips drive
>         self-tapping screws.
>         We substituted hex-head self-tappers as they easier to work
>         with using a
>         nut driver and a small open-end wrench than a screwdriver when
>         working
>         upside down holding bits against the underside, especially at
>         the hose
>         fitting end of the cooler since, as mentioned, one does not
>         really have
>         a straight shot at the mounting holes.
>
>         Though the instructions only mentioned it at the last sentence
>         ("top off
>         ATF and coolant"), there was no description of how much loss
>         to expect.
>         I bought a couple quarts of ATF and a half-gallon of premix
>         coolant and
>         had a big ol' tray handy.
>
>         There wasn't much loss of ATF, maybe 1/2 a cup, but a lot more
>         would
>         have been lost if I hadn't been on hand to fetch a cable tie
>         to secure
>         the first loosened hose while my son held it closed with a
>         crimp.
>
>         Someone doing this alone under the van might have been in a
>         pickle. A
>         mention of what to expect would have been helpful.
>
>         Once the two hoses that formerly went to the cooler were
>         joined, they
>         just flopped around. A note about securing them would have
>         been helpful,
>         too. We cable-tied them the to bail on the governor cover on
>         the side of
>         the transaxle.
>
>         I had that tray on hand to catch spills, and even bought some
>         little
>         corks to plug the end holes on the hose adapters that get
>         threaded into
>         the transaxle, but those weren't really needed. A note about
>         how much
>         drippage to expect would have been helpful.
>
>         Little things like this which would not faze most of you did
>         slow us
>         down. Learning as we go along, yep, yep, yep.
>
>         We had to disassemble the accelerator linkage on the side of
>         the trans
>         before we could get the trans lowered enough for access to its
>         nose to
>         remove the oil cooler because as the transmission lowered the
>         accel
>         cable began to haul down on the passenger side rear brake
>         line.
>
>         What's the proper routing for the brake line vs the
>         accelerator cable?
>         Gary Young, at Young's Ole Volks Home here said that Steve's
>         Place had
>         them backwards. The brake line was above the cable so it
>         rested on and
>         was being chafed by the cable, so he ran the brake cable under
>         the
>         accelerator cable. But this caused the aforementioned
>         interference when
>         lowering the trans.
>
>         Okay, enough whimpering. The cooler works: it was nice and
>         warm after a
>         test drive.
>
>         --
>         Rocky J Squirrel
>         '84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>         '74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
>         Calif.)
>         Bend, OR
>         KG6RCR
>
>