My little beastie is sick

[rick@brubakerbox.com (Rick Alexander)]

That little "square bit" is your oil cooler. Sounds strange but look under
cooling system in your Haynes and you probably will find it.

The sensors on top are screwed into the housing that the cooler is attached
to. You shouldn't have to fool with them at all.

The cooler is held on by a nut on the threaded shaft that holds the filter.
Look up under the filter when it is off and all will become apparent.

Rick Alexander
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----- Original Message -----
From: <cwass99@rogers.com>
To: <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 11:00 PM
Subject: My little beastie is sick


>
> Hi All,
>      Started my 87 8v up this morning and it puked all over the driveway.
It
> (fortunately) maintained enough oil in the system to get it into the
garage,
> the rest is now a really neat stain in the snow (no I hadn't shovelled my
> driveway - it was about -20 last night).  I only ran it about 1 minute and
it's
> still leaking oil several hours later, so I'm confident nothing was hurt
inside.
>      Anyhow, the leak seems to be the square block-like bit the oil filter
> screws into from the bottom and the pressure senders screw into in the top
(or
> maybe one of them is the temp sensor for the MFA?).  Unfortunately, my
Bentley
> is on back-order so I have to ask.  What is the name of this square bit
and how
> hard is it to change the (presumed) leaking seal at the top?  Does this
thing
> just unscrew like the filter?  Is my problem actually going to be the two
> little sensors on top?  Unfortunately my (soon to be fire starting
material)
> Haynes is completely silent on this topic.  The archives only had
discussions
> about this area on 16v engines that I could find.
>      I really appreciate any help you can provide.  I'm really not
enjoying
> driving about in a mini-van.  Just doesn't corner the same.
>
> Cheers,
> Colin
>
>
>
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