So Im checking out the website.  Which one is
recommended?  The 212?

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--- Antaki <wrack@ATTBI.COM> wrote:
> Hi all, not that I like open this old can of worms,
> but -
>
> I used to love Red Line trans oil, run it in my
> Scirocco 16V, my Vanagon
> trans, and it seemed like the best available-
> **Until Last Night**!!!
>
> Background:
> While at S Car Go, (www.scargoracing.com) a shop in
> Marin county that
> prepares Porsches for racing, builds custom engines,
> headers, you name
> it! They have one that puts out 500HP at the rear
> wheels!. Indeed they
> are widely known in Porsche racing circles, and do
> most excellent work.
>
> The Point of this message:
> I noticed that the only kind of oil in their shop is
> Swepco. One of them
> had a transaxle apart on the bench, and I asked him
> his opinion of Red
> Line vs Swepco. He told me that Red Line breaks down
> into a chalky
> deposit on the parts, and leaves a thin liquid
> behind. He then showed
> me, on the parts he was working on, exactly what he
> just told me. He
> scraped the goo deposit off of a gear, and I could
> see that the stuff
> coating the parts was red, and there was a layer of
> what looked like
> watery oil on some parts. He also told me that he
> can take one look and
> tell what was run in a gearbox, and sees a lot of
> Red Line-lubricated
> trannys come in broken.
>
> They run ONLY Swepco oils and lubricants in these
> awesome, beautiful,
> hand built, ex-freaking-spensive machines.
>
> I'm sold. It's Swepco from now on for my trans oil
> from now on, and if I
> upgrade from Mobil 1 Synth in my engines, it will be
> to Swepco. I'll
> even look for their greases for the important
> stuff...
>
> >rant off
>
> Thanks for listning,
>
> Ron Antaki
> '88 Wolfsburg (das all-purpose machine)
> '86 Syncro Westy (escape machine)
> '88 Scirocco 16V 2.0L (yee, I say, yee haaa!!)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> Of John Rodgers
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:01 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Manual Tranny Oil Change
>
>
> It's time to change the tranny oil on my 88 GL and
> I'm sticking with
> Redline MT90. I have been looking at the Tranny
> section in Bentley, but
> I'm dawgged if I can find a tranny drain plug in any
> of the pictures or
> drawings anywhere. Filler, yes! Drain, No!
>
> Can someone tell me where it is, and maybe point me
> to a picture?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver

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