I've simply laid my thumb across the 7 o'clock to 5 o'clock position
on the filler extension and carefully poured that $4/qt. oil down the
hole.  the thumb acts as just enough of a dam to keep the oil in.  I
will concoct a pvc pipe though when time permits.

Thanks

Max

At 10:04 PM 9/10/2005, Rob wrote:
>At  9/10/2005 07:33 PM, John Rodgers wrote:
>>If you are as annoyed as I am by the change of the size of the oil
>>bottle caps a little while back, Then you, like I, would like to spit in
>>the eye of the genius that decided that all major oil company bottle
>>mouths would be as large as the oil filler extension on the WBX engine.
>
>Just this morning I was changing the oil on my '87 for the first
>time. It has been some years since I had my '86 & I had forgotten
>what a pain in the butt that filler neck can be.
>I took a standard plastic oil bottle (the spout on the side of the
>bottle), cut the side off opposite of the spout and used that as a
>long funnel. It worked great, I wiped it out and put it in a ziplock
>bag when I was done.
>
>
>
>Rob
>becida@comcast.net
>Western WA state with an '87 Vanagon in the driveway!