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 > |
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