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Date:         Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:13:35 -0500
Reply-To:     Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Overfilling transmission fluid.
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@GULL.US>
In-Reply-To:  <3F849391.60407@gull.us>
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the way I did it was easy too---My hose pump was flush with the sides of
the tranny fill hole, so I unwittingly was pumping the oil in above the
hole.  When I removed the pump end, oil started coming out, but I quickly
screwed in the stopper to block it.


-wes


Hopefully nobody goes under there car on a steeply sloped driveway...








On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, David Brodbeck wrote:


> Matthew wrote:
> > HOW do you overfill ABOVE the hole (assuming the tranny is in the bus
> > and not sitting sideways on your workbench).
>
> It's easy if the van isn't sitting level.  Like if you're on a steeply
> sloped driveway, or you've run the front up on ramps.
>
> --
>
> David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> '82 Diesel Westfalia
> '94 Honda Civic Si
>
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