If they actually put in 6 quarts, then that could also be the problem. Actually
capacity is 4.7 US quarts. My uncle's '89 once drove with at least a quart over
full, and had a huge cloud of smoke follow him from a light, accompanied by
a loss of power, then things were fine. But he returned it to the shop to have it
checked and they found the mistake, so I don't know what might have
happened if he kept driving it.

On 11 Jun 2004 at 14:05, Marc Perdue <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET> wrote:

> I've always had someone else do the oil changes in my van so I'm not
> totally up on its specs.  How much oil is supposed to go into an '87
> Vanagon when you do an oil and filter change?  The dealer charged me for 6
> quarts . . .  I've had 6 people ask me if they actually put oil into my
> Westy whose engine is now blown . . . unfortunately, I was too upset when
> it blew to actually think of checking the oil level at the time.  I would
> think it would look low anyway because of the fact that there's a HOLE in
> the top of the engine and fluid of some kind EVERYWHERE in the engine
> compartment.  Come to think of it, though, the fluid looked more like
> coolant than oil . . . but I was too out of it to check on that either . .
> . :^(
>
> Still haven't heard from the dealer on their "prognosis" or what they plan
> to do about it . . .
>
> Thanks for all the responses!!!  You all are great!!
> Marc Perdue
>

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