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Subject:Re: Oil heat exchanger fail.. more
From:Neil N
Date:Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:46:50 -0700

Sure sounds like a messy job.

Did you buy that 2 year old cooler new? Sounds like you put a lot of miles
on it?

I guess I was lucky. The O ring on my oil cooler had started leaking so
upon inspection of the cooler, noticed it was starting to craze or crack a
little.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

......

>    I was hoping all the posts about the VW and the weak oil cooler was
> wrong....but mine, about two years old, went out too...When I get a chance,
> I'll be taking that out and making a better setup... I never want to deal
> with another failure...and I'm lucky nothing more serious resulted from it
> blowing..
>

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