For what its worth, I'm certainly not the expert as I'm new to all of this, but I met a guy at the Busses by the Buoy gathering last weekend who has an '87 Vanagon and he said he only uses synthetic for his tranny and says it works great for his van.  
  
Peace,
Marla
'87 Westy Van "Morrison"
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Morgan
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 9:32 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: synthetic automatic trans fluid
  
Hello all,
It is time to change the fluid in the automatic trans. I have just drained
the trans axle and swaped over to synthetic in it and was wondering about the
automatic trans using
synthetic in it . Any one have any experience in their autos?

Jim Morgan 86GL
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