Hi Volks: A fellow listee (Bob Berkemer) suggested the following maintenance task in a p-mail - and I am posting it with his permission:
> >Check the level of the gear oil in your differential. Often overlooked in >automatic vanagons. When I bought mine used from a VW dealer it was >empty......... >Fill to level of hole. A bit messy if you over fill and the gear oil stinks >but its a cheap maintenance procedure and important. Remember the 80-90 weight gear oil is for the differential.... the part of the tranny with the axles coming out. Putting gear oil in the automatic would NOT be a "value added activity"!! Marshall Ruskin |
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