VANAGON archives -- March 2010, week 3 (#139)

Date:         Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:34:19 -0700
Reply-To:     mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
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From:         mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: first try = first run
Comments: To: Ry <rylincoln@GMAIL.COM>
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I hope you did manage to put oil in the tranny before running the engine
much. You can ruin the dry tranny without driving the van, since the
engine will always turn the tranny mainshaft.

Mark


Ry wrote:
> Update:
> A few loose bolts on engine tin, timing not dialed in yet, coolant system
> needs to be bled some more(not that hard imho) and DOH i forgot to put trans
> oil in BEFORE i bolted it all up and made it more difficult to do.
>
> BUT first try and it started right up :)
>
>

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