Tom,
When I changed mine I found about the mass of a dime on the plug, I was
told that was normal.  Not bad for 95k with never a change.

Kenneth Winter
84 Westy
87 weekender
89 Golf
90 Honda to drive

 Young wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Dave wrote:
> 
> > I took out my transmission oil drain plug and there are little metal =
> > filings stuck to magnetic rod attached to the plug, there are not a lot =
> > of filings, but enough to cover the top of the rod, is this normal?
> 
> >From what I've read, this is typical and normal.
> 
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> Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
> Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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