RE: UPDATE good/bad Oil pan gasket change gone very bad

[Jonas Karlsson <jkarlsso@metabolex.com>]

Captnbr wrote:

>  It is very hard to tell exactly where, some where close to the oil 
cooler. 
>So where do i go from here? The place where it seems to be leaking 
appears to >be impossible to get to.  How do I remove the oil cooler?  
The two bolts that >seem to hold the oil 
>cooler to the engine are blocked by the oil cooler itself.  
>Something must have happened when I muscled off the old oil filter. 

This is a common source for an oil leak on VW w/ oil cooler. There is an 
o-ring gasket between the oil cooler and the oil filter flange. They get 
old and brittle, and when they go, it's a friggen river. You probably 
sent it on it's final way when you changed that filter. 

To replace it, remove the oil filter. There is a (I believe) 27mm nut 
holding the oil cooler onto the oil filter flange. Remove this, curse 
because it is such a tight fit to get in there with a big ass socket, 
and when it's off you will see the o-ring gasket. If you were planning 
ahead, you would have already gotten a replacement from the dealer, or 
potterman (if you are patient). If you didn't plan ahead, then bum a 
ride from your best friend down to the dealer. On the way back, complain 
about how the Civic you are riding in just doesn't feel like it has any 
torque. This will piss your friend off, so you should only do it _after_ 
you have gotten the goods. 

Put the new gasket on and you are set to go. 

HTH

Jonas
85 Scirocco 2.0


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