How about if I put the front up on axle stands?
On 1/12/07 11:52 AM, "Jim Felder" <felder@knology.net> wrote: > Ice cream bucket in volume, kid's wading pool in area. You'll fill up > almost a third of a five-gallon bucket if you get everything, but > you'll have to be quick to move it around a lot to do that. Get a > cheap plastic painter's drop cloth and then throw it away before you > actually have to crawl under. You can get the rest of it with a rag, > most likely. > > Here's a good trick I learned from my local VW shop, though with my > schedule it doesn't work as well as if you're doing it as a business. > They open engines on friday if they can, and by monday morning > there's not so much as a drip (works especially well on turbos and > diesels where there's a pan to come off and all that internal stuff > to drain). A big problem with waterboxers is that you'll think you > got everything, and then you move or tilt something slightly and here > comes the rest of the liquid. Horizontal layout, you know. > > Jim > > > On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Nathaniel Poole wrote: > >> The time has come, alas, to yank the 1.9/possibly 2.1 WBX out of my >> parts >> van. How much splooge will I be draining out of the cooling system? >> 1 Gal? >> 2? Are we talking ice cream bucket or kid's wading pool? >> Also should you drain the transaxle before yanking it as well? >> >> Nathaniel >> > |
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