Golf is a wonderful hike outdoors spoiled by a little white ball......but I still play and I drive my Vanagon to the course... I can practice putting behind the front seats if it's raining..... DM&FS At 01:15 AM 4/21/2010, neil n wrote: >On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote: > > Drained my trans (5sp) after about a year and a half, with about 30k miles > > on it's MT 90 Redline. It was almost new looking..still had the red color > > and very little cloudiness. There were just a few shavings on the magnetic > > drain plug. Amazing stuff. > > > > This time I am trying some Swepco 201 which is a dino oil that many of the > > Porsche crowd swear by and also a lot of industrial companies use in their > > commercial vehicles. We shall see how that stuff works in the vanagon. > > > > I also replaced my fuel filter. I replaced the line from the tank to the > > pump and added a small moto steel inline fuel filter into that > section also, > > just before the pump. > > > > Love all that sliding around under the van with gasoline running up my > > sleeves. At least I did remember to borrow a few golf tees for use in > > stopping the gas lines....the perfect tool, golf tees..Close as I will > > probably ever come to golf.. > > > > Don Hanson > > > > >Yah I tried golf. "whoosh, whack, slice". I'll stick to using golf >tees in fuel lines. ;^) > >That Redline is great stuff, but keep us posted on any differences >with the Swepco. My "new" tranny is ok, but I suspect it is long in >the tooth. Am using Redline MT, but maybe Swepco might help it shift >better and/or eke out a few more KM's, er, Miles. ;^) > >Neil. > > >-- >Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" > >http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > >http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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