Date:         Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:49:02 -0800
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From:         Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject:      Re: cracked oil filler tube
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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If you can't get that working,
I have so many waterboxer oil filler tubes around I have to kick them out of
the way just to do any work - if you need one.
And I'm sure many other people have spares of those too. 
Scott
www.turbovans.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Allan Streib
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:15 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: cracked oil filler tube

Tonight, I ground down the walls of a 19mm socket to fit the tight
clearance between the oversized drain plug bolt and the recess in the
case.  Drained the oil, seemed thinnish which I hope accounts for the
intermittent oil buzzer I get when decelerating.  We'll see, I'm
refilling with 15-50 Mobil 1.

While I had the case drained of oil I decided to fix the leaky
junction between the case and the filler tube.  This was heavily
smeared with black RTV, apparently from the outside, and when I got
it off sure enough there was no gasket.  I fabricated one from my
stock of gasket paper, but while I had the tube off I noticed that
the telescoping plastic section was cracked where it joins the metal
section of the filler.  More RTV was evident, and a hose clamp had
been applied in an attempt to hold it all together.

I hunted around on the usual vendor sites and did not see that this
telescoping section is available as a replacement.  So, I'm thinking
of making up one out of some PVC drain pipe.  I'm pretty sure this
could work; I've seen rubber clamping unions and threaded end caps
for this stuff in the plumbing section at Lowes.  Might even be able
to get a telescoping function with two different sized lengths.

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL