Originally Posted By: expat
Originally Posted By: artificialist
VW makes a large number of engines this way. The 2.Slow and 1.8T are the first examples that come to my mind. In some of those VW engines, there was a nut where the filter was threaded on. If that nut ever got loose, the cooler would split open and spill oil.
However, since VW stopped using spin on filters, they had to use a different kind of oil cooler.
I use that VW cooler (from a 2.0L Golf on my Triumph Spitfire.
I don't understand what you mean by the cooler splitting open?
The cooler is a single unit with a welded seam. It is secured to the engine block by a threaded tube adaptor that also receives the Spin on oil filter canister.
The ones I encountered didn't have welds. They were 2 case halves held together with a nut near the oil filter.