I remember the can's with the spouts punched in. Worlked reasonably
well. Now-a-days I just use the plastic bottles of oil. I really go
disturbed though when a year or so ago the oil was switched over to
bottles with larger openings. The small neck bottles worked well, but
these newer wide mouth bottles are a pain.. I keep a couple of  the
older bottles on hand, filled with my favorite oil, to avoid mass spillage.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Mark A Kippert wrote:
> Anybody remember how long it's been since oil came in a can? That
> telescoping tube would have worked just fine if you were filling it
> from a can of oil with a metal spout pushed into it. It's not as
> convenient when pouring from a bottle. Now you kinda need the funnel.
>
> Mark K
> 1986 GL 2WD
>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Allan Streib wrote:
>
>>
>> That is nice, but to me it just makes it easier to get the funnel in.
>> It's still much too "horizontal" to pour oil in directly from the
>> bottle.
>>
>> Allan
>> --
>> 1991 Vanagon GL
>
>> "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET> said:
>>
>>> The secret - the oil filler neck has an extension telescoped down
>>> inside
>>> the filler tube. Just grasp the edge of the filler tube between
>>> finger
>>> and thumb and pull and it slides right out, The rest is self evident.
>>> Pretty slick.
>>
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