On Wed, 21 May 2003, Doktor Tim wrote: > But the Bentley includes periodic inspection of the tranny lube in the > maintenance section. If you inspect it and see it's not clean, it follows > that you change it. And I don't think your statement is true. I can't > recall any Bentley that says, "Never change tranny lube". A fair point. It probably would have been more accurate for me to say that VW has no recommended change interval for it. And I seem to recall they made some trannies with no drain plug at all, though thankfully not for Vanagons. The stuff I drained out of my '82, with 148,000 miles on it, was solid black.
David Brodbeck, N8SRE '82 Diesel Westfalia '94 Honda Civic Si |
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