Date:         Sun, 17 May 1998 09:38:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Garrick Chang <gchang1@PACBELL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <Vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Garrick Chang <gchang1@PACBELL.NET>
Organization: Radiological Associates
Subject:      Re: transmission oil capacity was  Re: Redline trans oil (part 2)
              and a trans question
Comments: To: damosem@mail.mco.bellsouth.net
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Ron,

You're not going to want to do what I did.  I pulled the transmission
because I was swapping it.  I drained it out of the vehicle and tipped
it up to get all of the fluid out.  Having said that, it seemed to me
that the vast majority came out just draining it in the normal
horizontal position.  I'd be surprised if there were still 1.5 ats
remaining after a normal draining.

Garrick

Scarlett Semko wrote:
>
> How did you drain your tranny?
> I'm changing out my fluid but cannot get it all out.
>
> TIA
> Ron Semko
> 84 Vanagon
>
> Garrick Chang wrote:
>
> > > ***There is about 1.5 qt of the ~3.2 qt capacity of the trans that is
> > > trapped, so only getting out 1.5 to 2 qts sounds correct.
> >
> > I couldn't find the capacity in either the owners manual or Bentley but
> > I did drain about 3.5 qts out yesterday and put in 4 qts of Mobil-1.
> >
> > Garrick