need help identifying coolant fitting on 16V

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

AHA!
Thanks to Cathy's description and Don's jpeg (kudos, folks) I now know that
my car has been.........ALTERED.....
oh, the humanity.....

Well, the PO musta changed out the insidious pipe with another, equally
pernicious piece, sans fitting for the "roughly U shaped" hose, which I
shall call a "bypass" pipe.

WHY?
sacra bleu!

Hmmmm....what to do?  The plastic one, which is without the extra fitting
makes sense for me, unless I plan to replace that pipe with the "correct"
one.  Do I need the bypass?  I have only questions......

Until the answer comes, I leave you with this little poem:

Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!

- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz

>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]
>Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:21 PM
>To: Jim Ruffi
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: need help identifying coolant fitting on 16V
>
>
>
>Okay, sorry for the double post, but I had to go look to see what you were
>talking about. Anyway, mine has an aliminum piece, with a big fat hose that
>I'd say runs to the heater core (or so it seems, but not the heater core
>hose with the valve in it) , and the upfacing nipple goes to a roughly U
>shaped rubber hose of smaller diameter, that hooks  onto at nipple on the
>top of the "water pipe", that multiopening metal hose from hell that wraps
>around the engine, corrodes to lace and is a joy to replace.....there's
>some Scirocco poetry right there...
>
>That's what mine has. Who knows if it's hooked up properly, it's as the
>dealer put it together years ago.
>
>So there you have something at least.
>
>Cathy
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