RE: [T3] Removing fan housing while engine still in car?

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

I did mine in a parking lot in Omaha NE on the way to the last invasion...
When you get it apart, make sure the bolts holding the housing to the block
are tight and loktited... dont use antiseize ;-)

Keith

> I have obtained a replacement fan housing from ISP West that looks
> okay.  Not having access to a properly-equipped shop, I don't want to
> pull the engine unless it is absolutely unavoidable.  According to
> http://www.vw-resource.com/housing.html
>   it looks like it is possible to swap the housing only -- but I
> suspect those instructions are Beetle-specific and therefore not
> necessarily applicable.
> 
> Is this possible to do on a squareback?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> -- Chris
> 
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