Type 4 1700cc Snail Fan /Heat Exchanger

Where the inlet for the heat exchanger pokes up through the tin to allow the snail fan pipes to be fitted, should there be a seal of some sort? Got a gap at the moment. Not huge, but still a gap.

 

yeah, both fittings should have a rubber seal on them

 

Looks like it:

http://www.vwheritage.com/vw_spares...83069_lang_EN_country_GB.htm?crumbStartPage=1

 

Jeez..... A tenner for an oval piece of rubber

Another thing that will need to be improvised

 

That is a bit steep. I use a length of fuel hose slit down the middle on all those bits like that that were hard to find and now expensive.

 

Yep me too

 

Good tip chaps. I have been pondering for 3 years how to improvise those, I suppose the old foam to seal the tin to the body that I have just replaced may work too.

 

If you can find a round one they're the same circumference, just a different shape so can be used.

 

Birdy, you're a life saver. K+ if it still existed.

 

i do the same, it's perfect

 

I fitted the right one (didnt pay a tenner as I had one - now its just fallen straight through the hole doh!

 

Should have said Dicky, I have a spare one knocking about somewhere...

 

Ta mate. just need to fish it back up. There a bugger to fit with the tubes in there!!

 

Think the top lip is wider than the bottom, so has to be right way up...or maybe they just get like that when they're old?

 

How do you fit the nearside pipe to the heat exchanger? The hole in my exchanger is oval but the pipe end is round, also its obscured by the oil cooler?