Notice a few damaged threads on this part (left side goes into oil filter housing) that goes through the sandwich plate for the oil cooler: old picture when stripping down engine: The housing itself has no visible damage on the thread so should this threaded part be replaced? Not even sure if it's two parts? If so would the left threaded half be a VW part & need to be taken out & replaced or would the whole part that comes with the sandwich plate look like that above? Any links or Part numbers would be great. Thanks for reading. Mike
Iwould agree to it being a vw part that you should be able to get becuse youll be using the original filter wont you?
yes but that is an adapter not normaly on the car made to be able to screw the sandwich plate into the housing then the filter into the other end that is also threaded.
Anyone tell me if this is it & if so how i work out the size on my mk1? http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=ROAD&pcode=MOC605
What has happened is that the sandwich-plate female/male thread extender has got hold of, and screwed out of the original thread OEM oil-filter take off thread. The damaged part is OEM VW. Which oil filter take off on the block are you using? If you are using OEM GTI, you just need to get hoses to attach to the OEM GTI block take-off to go to the filter. If you swap your OEM GTI block take off, get one off a carb car, mod it to fit around something else that gets in the way on the GTI block, and vice-off and throw the damaged thread away.
I have a 19row mocal oil cooler here Chris (still attached to the sandwich plate, it was just the threaded bolt that holds it into the housing that had the damaged thread though no visible damaged thread within the housing itself only on the thread shown. The housing itself was fitted by TSR & the inside part has machining removing one of the fins inside to allow one of the senders to fit into it (green wire): old pic fitted: behind my thumb is another sender i think with one pin on it: strangely thread look weird in this pic but looks ok up close with my eyes though i did have the camera phone light on....
Fine - get a replacement of what's in the second pic above, that'll have a thread in it, rip the damaged thread off the female/male adaptor and get a new gasket. All back together, job done.
sorry chris, do you mean replace the housing itself, the whole threaded part (both halves) or just the left threaded half of the part in my very 1st pic that slips through the sandwich plate? Have the gasket for the housing here ready.
thanks so much for that you two, suppose just stick it in the vice & unthread the right side away from it
ok, sorry to be a pain but do you know if this is the Mocal half here & which size (thread i presume): http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/products/ProductDetail.asp?cls=ROAD&pcode=MOC605
Hmmm i will have to get the inner part ground out then like this, wonder how hard that is & why it had to be done this way..... & i still need to find out the mocal part that threads into the threaded union [:^(] .
from what I remember it's 3/4" you shouldn't need the mocal bit anyway, just unscrew it from the knackered vw threaded bit like chris said above. Maybe you could fit a later oil filter take off as they have holes for 3 senders, if they fit the mk1 block?
Maybe someone can check the part number for the housing to see if it's a later one: 053-115-417 Or has that 3rd sender hole been drilled & tapped into the front or just had to be ground out inside to take a different length sender? not sure what all 3 are plugged into it? oil pressure (large tub on top). oil temp & ? car has a separate oil pressure & temp gauge fitted.
in your pic it shows its been maching badly imo to allow the sender not to foul and be able to be inserted
