It's far less about fluid expansion then about the fluid draining into the
pan when it's not running.  Need to get it nice and warm so the ATF is in
all the passages and especially the torque converter.

Overfull is bad...

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 6:18 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Attention automatic transmission owners; a little help!

between the full and add marks..
and usually you would take the reading  with the van sitting level, idling
in Park,
and Warm.
( fluid expands of course with heat )

in any case...it's very important that it not be overfull...... ever.

Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Fisher" <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 5:13 PM
Subject: Attention automatic transmission owners; a little help!

>I wonder if some of you fine folks would be so kind as to go out and check
> your transmission fluid levels with the drive train stone cold. I'm trying
> to establish a sort of average frame of reference for what that level
> would
> be.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Cya,
> Robert
>
> '87 & '86 Auto GLs