Thanks, Scott.  Got it, and it does seem to me that it will be useful, any time I put oil in the engine, change or add (I never have to add oil, though, level doesn't go down between changes).  I don't know why, when I've looked at the filler tube before, it did not appear to have anything that would extend.  Turns out, just pull up on the rim of the tube, and up the extension comes.  Someone else suggested using an implement, but I see no need to.  Fingers are all the implement needed.  DMc

---- Scott Daniel  - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
> it can be missing,
> but remove the cap ..
> look for a small 'edge' you can grab, and pull out the extension.
>
> I don't find it that useful.
> perhaps for just adding some oil, but for a full oil change...funnel baby.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Mcneely" <mcneely4@COX.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:35 PM
> Subject: Re: 2.1 L Oil filler tube needed
>
>
> > ---- David Milo <dellaone@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> pulling out the oil filler extension tube that the po didn't know about.
> >
> > I don't really know about that extension tube.  I know the owner's book
> > states that it is there, in the instructions for adding and for changing
> > oil, but I can't tell that there is any extension tube as a part of the
> > filler tube on my waterboxer.  I use a funnel.  Am I just mechanically
> > impaired, or can the extension be missing?
> >
> > David McNeely
>

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David McNeely