Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 06:50:48 -0500
Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject: Re: Back Online
You Wrote:
just had it in to a Texaco Service center for servicing with oil change,
filter, and tranny check. They signed the tranny off as having been
checked...
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Quoted from the
UNIVERSAL 'SERVICE CENTER' MANUAL FOR 22 POINT 'SAFETY CHECKS, (used widely
by Jiffy Lube, Midas, Texaco, Sears, Muffler Man, Western Auto, etc.)
SECTION 12, ITEM 4, TRANSMISSION
"Service attendant must visually locate transmission on vehicle being
inspected. Blind service attendants may use touch to locate transmission.
Transmission is generally a large metal object attached directly to motor,
or indirectly through drive line. Through general observation, service
attendant must establish that the transmission is firmly attached to the
vehicle, and does not have any obvious holes, cracks, gushing leaks, or
loose parts. Notify customer only if transmission is missing, or will soon
fall out of the vehicle, or has obvious holes, cracks, gushing leaks, or
loose parts.
This completes the Transmission check. Service attendant must sign sheet to
establish the completion of the "Transmission Check".
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
Cary, North Carolina, USA
www.bulley-hewlett.com
phone: 888.468.4880 (tollfree)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Rodgers [SMTP:inua@ROADRUNNER.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:55 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Back Online
-- [ From: John Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
Howdy Vanagoneers! Went offline for quite a spell (since January) while
re-
locating and have anxiously awaited this moment......Reconnected!!
There are tales to tell but first let me say it is good to be back with the
Vanagon crowd.
My travels over the last couple of years have taken me from Alaska to
Alabama and now to New Mexico. I expect to get back to Alaska eventually.
My
trusty steed for all that was first a 1985 GL and later (and
currently ) a 1988 GL, the latter of which turned out not to be so trusty
a
steed in the beginning. And that is quite a story.
It began one day before I was to drive to New Mexico from Birmingham,
Alabama. Had the Van in to my favorite Van guru, Roger Williams of Rogers
Auto Repair in Bessemer, basically a suburb of Birmingham. Good man, Roger,
and exellent mechanic on vanagons.
He had done a brake job for me, replaced steering rack boots, installed new
O2 sensoe, new cat converter, new muffler and tail pipe. While it was in
there, and just because I was about to leave on a long trip, I asked him to
drain the tranny and put in new oil. When he did, there was all kinds of
metal, not chunks but filings a plenty. He also told me the tranny fluid
was
so low, it was hard to measure. He also said it looked like the filler plug
had never been removed -- ever. That was especially disturbing because I
had
just had it in to a Texaco Service center for servicing with oil change,
filter, and tranny check. They signed the tranny off as having been
checked
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