Date:         Thu, 27 Oct 1994 08:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Thom Fitzpatrick" <thom@tim.com>
Subject:      Re: Tranny oil

>I changed my tranny oil in my '78 bus because I didn't know the
>history of the bus. By the looks of the drain plugs I'd say they
>had never been changed. Yes there is a magnet on the drain plug,
>but mine looked like Bart Simpsons hair do when I removed it -
>quit a lot of metal bits were attached. When I put in the new oil,
>which was most definitely correct and by the book oil, the tranny
>was always stiff in first and second gears until the whole lot

I had the EXACT same problem when I changed the fluid in my SO's BMW just
after she bought it (the car, not the farm)  I changed it again a few weeks
later and used 80/90 instead of 85/140, and the problem went away.

Thom
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