Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:38:24 -0500
Reply-To: John Meeks <jmeeks@GASLIGHTMEDIA.COM>
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From: John Meeks <jmeeks@GASLIGHTMEDIA.COM>
Subject: Re: Redline MT-90 Winter Weather Advisory
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Tom and All,
>how much of it can you actually get out
>of the tranny percentagewise in one pass?
The Bentley shows my tranny capacity as 3.2 qts. Unfortunately I did not
measure the amount that drained from the gearbox. If someone else uses this
jacking sequence and does measure the drainage, please post it as a comment
to the article.
My gut feeling is that I drained almost all the oil. After it stopped
draining at level, jacking up the front yielded a lot more old oil.
My fill method didn't allow any precise method for measuring input either. I
just filled it till it poured out the fill hole. Whatever is in the hose
and funnel gets wasted. I used 4.3 quarts at US$7.65/qt.
If anyone has a better method or more quantitative data I'll be happy to
post it on the website.
John Meeks
Top of Lower Michigan
91 Westfalia MultiVan
Vanagon Rescue Squad
http://vw.upnorth.net?catid=74
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
>Of tom ring
>Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 7:41 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Redline MT-90 Winter Weather Advisory
>
>
>When you change the oil, how much of it can you actually get out
>of the tranny
>percentagewise in one pass?
>
>Similarly, do you need to do more than one change to get enough
>of a percentage
>of the new oil, or is one change enough?
>
>And what did you end up spending?
>
>I ask since I haven't messed with this VW tranny, just the
>Rabbit/Golf/Scirroco
>series.
>
>thanks
>tom
>
>
>On 13 Nov 2003 at 23:19, John Meeks wrote:
>
>> Vanagonauts,
>> Just a quick report on my switch to MT-90. I changed over from
>dino oil in
>> my 91 manual trans Multivan about 5 weeks ago. I have since
>been pleasantly
>> surprised on the few mornings in the 20 degree Fahrenheit
>range to find the
>> gearbox shifting like on a summer day.
>>
>
>
>------
>Tom Ring K0TAR, ex-WA2PHW EN34hx
>85 Westphalia GL Albert
>96 Jetta GL The Intimidator
>taring@taring.org
>
>"It is better to go into a turn slow, and come out fast, than to
>go into a turn fast
>and come out dead." Stirling Moss
>