Those are the originals. Junk in my opinion. They appear to be a sort of
throwaway fastener. Put in new ones. I bought some new ones from the
local VW dealer a few years ago. They were still available.

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Tom Sullivan wrote:

>I guess mine are not orginal as they are plastic "pins" that push in with a
>rectangular head but no screws :'(
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
>Of Jack
>Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 5:01 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: filling or refilling tranny?
>
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>Same questions as Bill's plus one.  Is it possible to tilt/park the Vanagon
>in such a way that more of or nearly all the old oil will drain (4 sp,
>manual, 2wd)?  Or can this only be done with the tranny out?  (Ok, that's 2
>questions.)
>
>Thanks,
>Jack
>'85 Vanagon GL Weekender
>
>Date sent:              Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:44:20 -0800
>Send reply to:          "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM>
>From:                   "Bill H." <starfinder88@YAHOO.COM>
>Subject:                Re: filling or refilling tranny?
>To:                     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>
>
>>If I wanted to drain my tranny and refill it with the Redline MT90 and it
>>still has 1.5 quarts of the original tranny oil in there, will mixing the
>>original and synthetic oil cause any trouble? Or do you have the take the
>>tranny out and really drain it all out? Just something in the back of my
>>
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>mind
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>>for next springs list of things to work on.
>>
>>Bill H.
>>88 GL
>>
>>--- Warren Lail <wlail@OU.EDU> wrote:
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>>>Okay,  I just filled my 091 4-speed tranny with Redline MT90.   The
>>>
>>>
>tranny
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>>>is out of the bus and was totally empty. I carefully leveled it and
>>>
>>>
>pumped
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>>>in 3.7 US quarts, but it did not bring it up to the bottom of the fill
>>>hole.  So, I checked Bentley again and it says in a footnote that the
>>>capacities given are for a RE-fill because normally 1.5 quarts will
>>>
>>>
>remain
>
>
>>>in the tranny even after draining it (assuming, I think, that tranny is
>>>left in the vehicle and that the vehicle is level).
>>>
>>>
>>
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