Golf is a wonderful hike outdoors spoiled by a little white
ball......but I still play and I drive my Vanagon to the course...  I
can practice putting behind the front seats if it's raining.....

DM&FS

At 01:15 AM 4/21/2010, neil n wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Drained my trans (5sp) after about a year and a half, with about 30k miles
> > on it's MT 90 Redline.  It was almost new looking..still had the red color
> > and very little cloudiness. There were just a few shavings on the magnetic
> > drain plug.  Amazing stuff.
> >
> >  This time I am trying some Swepco 201 which is a dino oil that many of the
> > Porsche crowd swear by and also a lot of industrial companies use in their
> > commercial vehicles.  We shall see how that stuff works in the vanagon.
> >
> >  I also replaced my fuel filter.  I replaced the line from the tank to the
> > pump and added a small moto steel inline fuel filter into that
> section also,
> > just before the pump.
> >
> >  Love all that sliding around under the van with gasoline running up my
> > sleeves.  At least I did remember to borrow a few golf tees for use in
> > stopping the gas lines....the perfect tool, golf tees..Close as I will
> > probably ever come to golf..
> >
> >  Don Hanson
> >
>
>
>Yah I tried golf. "whoosh, whack, slice". I'll stick to using golf
>tees in fuel lines.   ;^)
>
>That Redline is great stuff, but keep us posted on any differences
>with the Swepco. My "new" tranny is ok, but I suspect it is long in
>the tooth. Am using Redline MT, but maybe Swepco might help it shift
>better and/or eke out a few more KM's, er, Miles.    ;^)
>
>Neil.
>
>
>--
>Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"
>
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