But you could drop the pan and put some swepco in now... and see if you can
tell a difference.... if its so much why wait to benefit?

>From: "Antaki" <wrack@attbi.com>

>
>No, I haven't changed oil yet in the Wolfie, having recently put a
>fairly fresh fill of regular dino oil in it. However, when my Syncro
>trans is rebuilt, it will start off with Swepco.
>
>Ron
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Dorm [mailto:mark_hb@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:27 PM
>To: wrack@ATTBI.COM; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
>
>
>
>Have you put this Swepco stuff in yet? All I want to know right now, is
>can you personally feel/tell a difference.... When I first added Redline
>oil to my automatic tranny (Redline D4) I noticed an improvement, of
>course, I was noticing the difference between old non synthetic and new
>synthetic... but when my tranny was serviced prior to that adding in run
>of the mill dexron I didn't notice a difference.... . does non synthetic
>break down to a chalkiness... Is your vanagon automatic? .... I'm really
>interested in this post/thread... would like the feedback...
>
>
>
> >From: Antaki
> >Reply-To: Antaki
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
> >Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:10:06 -0800
> >
> >I will try to remember to ask when I visit them again next week.
> >You must be talking about this:?
> >http://www.swepcousa.com/lubesite/gear.htm
> >
> >Check out the 601:
> >http://www.swepcousa.com/lubesite/spec.htm
> >
> >
> >Ron
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Zoran Mladen [mailto:zmaninco@yahoo.com]
> >Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:32 PM
> >To: Antaki; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
> >
> >
> >So Im checking out the website. Which one is
> >recommended? The 212?
> >
> >
> >
> >--- Antaki 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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