Ice cream bucket in volume, kid's wading pool in area. You'll fill up
almost a third of a five-gallon bucket if you get everything, but
you'll have to be quick to move it around a lot to do that. Get a
cheap plastic painter's drop cloth and then throw it away before you
actually have to crawl under. You can get the rest of it with a rag,
most likely.

Here's a good trick I learned from my local VW shop, though with my
schedule it doesn't work as well as if you're doing it as a business.
They open engines on friday if they can, and by monday morning
there's not so much as a drip (works especially well on turbos and
diesels where there's a pan to come off and all that internal stuff
to drain). A big problem with waterboxers is that you'll think you
got everything, and then you move or tilt something slightly and here
comes the rest of the liquid. Horizontal layout, you know.

Jim

On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Nathaniel Poole wrote:

> The time has come, alas, to yank the 1.9/possibly 2.1 WBX out of my
> parts
> van. How much splooge will I be draining out of the cooling system?
> 1 Gal?
> 2? Are we talking ice cream bucket or kid's wading pool?
> Also should you drain the transaxle before yanking it as well?
>
> Nathaniel
>