Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:23:24 -0500
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Adding windshield fluid? Where?
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Goodness me, was that oil filler extension thing a secret? I knew about it from as soon as I had my van! Along with how to fill the windshield wiper fluid, and that the fuses for the fridge and other stuff in the back are behind the driver's seat.
And here I thought I was totally ignorant about vanagons!
Joy
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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy
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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of John Rodgers
:::Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 2:04 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Adding windshield fluid? Where?
:::
::: From your comment you must not know about the Vanagons biggest(?)
:::secret!!
:::
:::There is an extension built into the Vanagon oil filler tube. It is
:::there to enable you to easily add oil to the engine without having to
:::stand on one foot, pick your nose, screw up your face, and swear in
:::Latin, while the oil dribbles all over due to that horizontal tube
:::installation.
:::
:::Down inside the filler tube is an extension, and if you just use your
:::thumb and finger to grasp it at the edge - right at the filler tube
:::opening - it will pull right out, and stick out beyond the filler hatch,
:::thus making it much easier to add oil.
:::
:::I had been driving my '85 GL for two years when I discovered this, and
:::then only by accident. I though I had pulled the filler tube out of the
:::engine block or something. But when I figured out what it was, I was
:::delighted!!
:::
:::John Rodgers
:::88 GL Driver
:::
:::Ray Hill wrote:
:::
:::> Oil filler thing? What is that about? Am I missing something that I
:::>should know?
:::>
:::>-----Original Message-----
:::>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
:::Of
:::>Loren Busch
:::>Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 1:40 PM
:::>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::>Subject: Re: Adding windshield fluid? Where?
:::>
:::> RE: Oil filler extension...
:::>John, quit rubbing it in. I drove a Vanagon for over ten years before I
:::>found out about the oil filler thing....
:::>
:::>
:::>
:::>
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