oil cooler O-ring

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Don't know your exact setup, but what about leaving the cooler off completely 
and just spinning on a new filter?  Then drive it until you can get a new 
O-ring.
GL.

-Dick-
78 Scirocco
Original Owner
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In a message dated 3/13/04 3:56:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
sad_rocc@yahoo.com writes:
It's not a fix and forget solution, but if you need the car, go for it. I 
haven't tried it myself, but have heard from many people about this quick fix. 
Others with actual experience in this will undoubtably chime in.

Dan

Wolfsbrg8v@aol.com wrote:


The rocco sprang a tremendous oil leak yesterday -- luckily 
I had extra oil and was able to limp home by adding a quart 
every few blocks. Left a 3" wide oil slick down the highway.

Figuring it was the oil cooler seal, I removed the cooler and 
sure enough, a nice, fatal split in the O-ring.

(Thanks to Patrick for his tech note on this!)

In the archives, there is a suggestion to use the O-ring off
the top of an oil filter for a replacement seal. Have any of
you done this, and is it reliable? I'd just get the part from
VW or a shop, but it's saturday night and I need the car
running by tomorrow .. but if this isn't a reliable substitute
I'll wait til monday to get the OEM seal.

TIA,
leo
84 wolfsburg