Date:         Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:54:19 -0800
Reply-To:     Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Draining motor
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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
>>
>