Hi Zoran

kinda hard to tell how long it took, because I just left it running for
maybe half an hour.  It prolly took less time than that, though.  (For the
record the van sat for a couple of weeks between refitting & partially
filling the tranny till yesterday when it ran & pumped up the TC, but that
shouldn't have made a difference.)

I followed the tip (apologies that gmail won't let me see whose tip it was
-- too long a thread to peek) of getting the bus level -- and jacked up the
passenger side too, fwiw --  then added fluid slowly over a period, until
the ATF showed around the lower dipstick mark.

When everything was very warm (with the passenger wheel off the ground) I
put it into gear, and the wheel spun -- so exciting :-)))

Unfortunately on the way to work this morning, in the van, the circlip
dropped off which was holding the gear selector cable to the selector lever
at the tranny.  It's a 37 cent part from VW but will take a while to get
here :-(    So my drive home will be without any gears apart from drive --
no reverse or park or neutral.  I tried to bodge it with wire, but no luck.

Good luck with your 85.

Al

On 1/2/06, Zoran Mladen <zmaninco@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats Al!
>
> We are having the same problem with an 85.  How long did it take for the
> TC to fill?  Seconds?  Minutes?  20 minutes?
>
> Z
>
> *al sinclair <alvanagon@GMAIL.COM>* wrote:
>
> Hallelujah! Happy New Year to EVERYONE! It was just the TC needed pumping
> time to fill -- the bus is moving again!
>
> Many many many thanks to everyone who advised, encouraged and helped! Now
> I've got a humble first foot on the ladder of becoming worthy of
> maintaining
> our westie, thanks to the kindness of all you great guys.
>
> Here's to a wonderful 2006 full of vanagoing.
>
> Al
>
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