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Thu May 01, 2025 10:12 am

Any help appreciated to identify this part. It's got a date on it, but no part number.

Thu May 01, 2025 11:14 am

Eurovan oil cooler 1992 to 2003.
https://www.eurocampers.com/EuroVan-Engine-Oil-Coo...IUEALw_wcB

Thu May 01, 2025 1:38 pm

Thank YOU!!!!!!!!

Thu May 01, 2025 3:05 pm

Then how can it be dated 84?, although it looks alot like the one that was on my son's 1998 newbeetle. Common VW part?

Thu May 01, 2025 3:19 pm

busdaddy wrote: Then how can it be dated 84?, although it looks alot like the one that was on my son's 1998 newbeetle. Common VW part?
That's likely.
I didn't do a deep dive on the application. I just remembered seeing that cooler in the Eurovan forum.

Thu May 01, 2025 3:21 pm

I had that on my 1983 T3 Diesel.

Thu May 01, 2025 3:49 pm

I know it will fit my 1986 Vanagon and a lot more VW's

per this below, it fits 11 VW models, 263 variations of models, from 1984 thru 2006 year models!!!! (click on the "what it fits " tab)

https://parts.vwmarin.com/p/Volkswagen__Scirocco/E...20Products

Fri May 02, 2025 1:32 pm

That part FITS watercooled VW and audi engines from about 1974 through now....so yes....it was probably on every vehicle mentioned in this thread.

They actually worked fairly well. Anti-freeze circulates around the oil core sandwiched between oil filter and case.
Many people will swear that these are less of an oil cooler than they are an anti-freeze heater for faster warm up.....but I can assure you that on most watercooled vw 4 cylinders....they are used as an oil cooler. The oil on the 4 cylinder rabbit, Golf, Jetta and sirroco ....especially with 4 speed manuals vs 5 speed....gets very hot.

This type of oil cooler actually started being used....iirc....on the mk2 water cooled vws. The earlier mk1s used an actual oil cooler from an air cooled type 1 or type 3....in a special mount in the radiator fan shroud with two hoses that connected to a sandwich adapter on the oil filter head.

This water cooled oil cooler started in conjunction with the oil pressure problems (caused from heat and partly from incorrect oil filter usage) in the mk 2s which also s0awned the use of the oil pressure alarm system.

A lot of Ford V8s also have oil/water coolers just like this mounted at the oil filter. Here is one here:

https://www.amazon.com/AIVWUMOT-Cooler-4C3Z6A642A-...&gQT=2

Ray

Fri May 02, 2025 3:21 pm

Yes, it looks the same as the one that was on my '86 and '87 GTIs but I can't confirm it's the exact same part.

Fri May 02, 2025 3:29 pm

raygreenwood wrote: A lot of Ford V8s also have oil/water coolers just like this mounted at the oil filter.
Honda and Toyota too, they look different but function the same.

One PSA about the VW ones is replace the big O ring between it and the block every few years, My son's NB barfed out all it's oil one cold morning, I saw the puddle and trail as he left and manged to phone him before he got on the freeway, could have ended badly if it happened at speed.
The seal was petrified like glass and shattered from the cold oil pressure the first frosty morning of the fall.

Fri May 02, 2025 6:34 pm

^^^This^^^
In my view it is both an oil heater for cold starts and cold weather and an oil cooler in hot weather and high loads. I would call it an oil temperature stabilizer.

My ‘92 Chevy pickup had a similar system too. It helps prevent condensation buildup in the oil on short around town trips by keeping the oil around the same temperature as the engine coolant. Part of the changes made on modern engines so that they can go longer on an oil change.