All you have to remember about the quick change oil places is this:
HASTE MAKES WASTE
These guys are in a hurry to make money.
Their customers are in a hurry and want to avoid a messy job.
Slow down and do the job right.
It literally takes only 15 minutes to do the job right.
That's less time than it takes to drive to the oil change place.
Bill
90 Westy Syncro
-----Original Message-----
From: andrew swingler <andys@ECE.UBC.CA>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 1:59 AM
Subject: OIL FILTERS?

>I'm confused. Do Vanagons require a special brand of filter for optimum
>performance? What is wrong with the lube guys filters? I just got my oil
>changed at big O in Moab UT and well.........now somehow I have dents
>along the side of my gas tank rails. Enough to mess up the gas gage!!!
>grrrr
>I'm assuming that the driver got all confused about sitting over the fron
>wheels and somehow droped it off the hoist.
>
>-ANdys
>
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Susan Bernavich wrote:
>
>> ok,,,, forgive me if this sounds like a silly question....if I go to one
of
>> those places to have my oil changed ...I should bring my own filter
right???
>> where should I get it???? From one of the vendors on the list????  thanks
>> Susan Bernavich
>>
>> McComas_Glenn wrote:
>>
>> > Hugo ---
>> >
>> > Last month I bought a 1987 Vanagon with a rod knock.  The prev_owner
had
>> > taken it to a Jiffy Lube, where they crossthreaded the drain plug.
Then he
>> > took it to a mechanic, who put in a helicoil, but may have treated the
chip
>> > problem too lightly.  Not long afterwards, the engine developed a rod
>> > knock...... perhaps from metal chips, or from the control-label filter
used
>> > at Jiffy Lube??  Would you want this scenario??
>> >
>> > On the other hand, if you know the folks who work at the Firestone and
they
>> > let you supply the filter, and they let you replace the drain plug,
then
>> > maybe it's worth doing.
>>
>