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Date:         Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:52:26 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <jhrodgers@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Tranny oil - success
Comments: To: Blake Thornton <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
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Somewhere along the way in life living with a Vanagon, I have read that the synthetics may very well cause seal seapage, if you are switching from Dino oil to synthetics. If you sart out with all new seals and all new synthetics then it is not a problem. Never quite made sense to me, however. But minor seepage doesn't hurt anything. Just be sure to do a tranny level check at routine oil changes and you will always catch it when the tranny oil begins to get low.

John Rodgers 88 GL driver

Blake Thornton wrote: > > Well, I got around to putting in new transmission oil yesterday. I > drained the old (brownish in color) and cleaned off my drain plug (it had > accumulated quite a collection of metal fragments). > > I then opened the bottles of redline MT90 and saw pink. I was immediately > worried but then realized that redline is synthetic and not dino oil. So > I dumped it into my tranny (ok, I actually pumped it in with a fluid pump > and it worked great). I used about 4 quarts in the tranny and about 1/5 > of a quart on the ground (oops!). > > I then drove around after buttoning everything back up. My van shifted so > wonderfully! I couldn't believe I was driving the same van. I wish I had > done this earlier. > > Just thought I'd post my success. > > blake > 84 westy > SLC UT


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