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Subject:Re: Tips and Tricks - Oil Filler NecK Extension Extension.
From:turbodieseltrooper
Date:Sun, 11 Sep 2005 07:21:28 -0700

I have used this funnel for years to keep from spilling fluids all over my
motorcycles. I found it to work prefectly for filling oil into my vanagon.

http://store.yahoo.com/pitposse/rerafu.html

> 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!