Well if you guys just have to have a funnel to get that oil in you can make
a quickie out of your junk mail by twisting a piece of  8.5 x 11" plain
writing paper into a funnel design.
Newspaper and other paper works too.
I've also notices that many gas stations have funnels made of paper like the
old Dixie cup drinking cups with the bottom point clipped to make them into
a funnel.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Wellhouse" <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Tips and Tricks - Oil Filler NecK Extension Extension.

> 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!