Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:52:28 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 15 Jan 2009 (#2009-55)
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it works fine on waterboxers too.
I let them drain mostly into the engine,
and then I have a nice gallon metal Marvel Mystery oil can,
or a gallon oil jug, a funnel, a spot to keep this ..........and I drain oil
bottles for hours, even over night, into the larger gallon can.
every once in a while as I walk buy, I'll take one bottle off the funnel in
the gallon can, and put another one.
You get a lot of oil after a while this way.
where I am in Ashland Oregon, we can put our plastic oil bottles into
recycling. That take it right in with newspaper and magazines..
Hopefully it doesn't go to landfill.
It is indeed a shame to think that the millions of oil bottles emptied every
day in the country would go into landfill, but I'll bet most of them do.
One of these days that's going to have to stop, if landfills are to not
overwhelm us. That most recycling is purely voluntary is very strange.
Someday, ever last thing will be recycled, one way or another.
Have Vanagon fun !
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: "sam mccarthy" <sfcompost@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: vanagon Digest - 15 Jan 2009 (#2009-55)
> Adding oil to the engine is an aggravating challenge - trying to pour
> > oil into the filler neck at a near horizontal angle. You are guaranteed
> > to spill some oil and make a mess unless you use a funnel. Then
> > afterwards there is always the question of what to do with the funnel
> > which is now coated with residual oil.
> >
> > The secret - the oil filler neck has an extension telescoped down inside
> > the filler tube. Just grasp the edge of the filler tube between finger
> > and thumb and pull and it slides right out, The rest is self evident.
> > Pretty slick.
>
>>just be careful when you use the oil fill cap to prop open the lisc plate
>>flap... once i dropped it behind the fiberglass bumper...took me 15
>>minutes to
>>get it out LOL
I had no idea anyone else out there used the oil filler cap to prop open the
license plate. I guess given the common necessity, we are compelled to
invent similar solutions.
I wonder who else has found this little "aid": once the telescoping filler
neck is out, and plastic oil bottle spout is in, I use the bottle to push
the filler neck back in allowing the bottle to get nearly vertical. Then
having removed the cap from its job holding the license plate open, I let
the license plate close on the bottle holding it there to drain. I can't
stand seeing all the oil that remains in the bottle after it is drained,
which all ends up in the landfill eventually.
By the way, I haven't tried the "propping to drain" on anything but the
Diesel Vanagon oil filler neck, have no idea if it works on the WBXR.
Sam M
1981 Westy, 2.0 L I4
1991 Carat awaiting TDI implant
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