On Wed, 21 May 2003, Doktor Tim wrote:

> But the Bentley includes periodic inspection of the tranny lube in the
> maintenance section. If you inspect it and see it's not clean, it follows
> that you change it. And I don't think your statement is true. I can't
> recall any Bentley that says, "Never change tranny lube".

A fair point.  It probably would have been more accurate for me to say
that VW has no recommended change interval for it.  And I seem to recall
they made some trannies with no drain plug at all, though thankfully not
for Vanagons.

The stuff I drained out of my '82, with 148,000 miles on it, was solid
black.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si