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Date:         Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:11:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Donna Stewart <DStewart@CHRM.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Donna Stewart <DStewart@CHRM.COM>
Subject:      Re: Oil Level Again
Comments: To: psavage@SABER.NET
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Apparently there's been a service bulletin regarding new TDIs to this effect - now when doing an oil change the dealer doesn't fill it completely full, I assume for the reasons cited.

Donna, 87 Wolfsburg, 98 Beetle TDI (Herbie, of course)

>>> PSavage <psavage@SABER.NET> 06/25/01 11:08AM >>> Exactly! I've noticed the same thing with my '85-- I thought mine was burning oil, but actually it seems fine if I just don't keep topping it off when it gets a half quart low.

Phaedra

----- Original Message ----- From: Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM> Subject: Re: Oil Level Again

> I remember in the old Muir book on the aircooled VW bus said that adding > an oil cooler was like getting an additional cylinder's worth of power. > I keep the oil level in the middle of the stick to avoid foaming in the > Vanagon. I've noticed in my VR6 Passat (as have others) that any > addition of oil past the half mark on the stick seems to be pointless as > that oil seems to disappear somehow. I thought the engine was burning > oil until I realized that it never went below 1/2 way down on the > dipstick


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