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Subject:Re: For the Vanagon Newbies - Oil Filler Neck Secret
Date:Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:38:29 EST

In a message dated 1/15/09 6:13:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
doug.alcock@GMAIL.COM writes:

> Adding oil to the engine is an aggravating challenge - trying to pour
> > oil into the filler neck at a near horizontal angle. You are guaranteed
> > to spill some oil and make a mess unless you use a funnel. Then
> > afterwards there is always the question of what to do with the funnel
> > which is now coated with residual oil.
> >
> > 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.
>

just be careful when you use the oil fill cap to prop open the lisc plate
flap... once i dropped it behind the fiberglass bumper...took me 15 minutes to
get it out LOL

im thinking of JB welding a little chain to the cap so it wont happen
again.....haha

chris

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