There aren't any van owners laughing at you.
You've been fortunate enough that you haven't had your engine spread out
all over the floor in your garage.
After a rebuild job or two a guy finds a lot of gizmos and oddities about
VW engines, be they Air Cooled, WaserBoxers or Diesel. They all have
oddities that make them German Engineered.
I haven't looked in my owners manual but I would almost bet its not
mentioned there.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 22:31:10 -0500 Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
writes:
> You know, though, even with that stupid filler tube extension, you
> still
> need a mofo funnel.  The filler tube doesn't fit any of the
> widemouth
> oil bottles with which Mobil 1 comes.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf
> Of John Rodgers
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:37 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: !!! ACCESSORY NEEDED !!!
>
>
> Yeh, well, I have been driving Vanagons since 1990 and just this
> year
> discovered the oil filler tube extension!!! I just hate to think of
> all
> the @#$%%%$&*^*** wasted over all those years on what I thought to
> be
> the most ^%#$*&^%*$ inconvenient filler tube ever.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver

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