Since my original post about Redline oil started this issue of "trapped"
oil in the trans, I'll give you the definitive answer.  I pulled the
trans yesterday and tipped it up on end to drain out any remaining oil.
Got maybe a quarter of a quart.  So, an aircooled 2-wheel-drive trans
does *not* keep 1.5 quarts "trapped" when doing an oil drain.

On Sun, 17 May 1998, Garrick Chang wrote:

> Ron,
>
> You're not going to want to do what I did.  I pulled the transmission
> because I was swapping it.  I drained it out of the vehicle and tipped
> it up to get all of the fluid out.  Having said that, it seemed to me
> that the vast majority came out just draining it in the normal
> horizontal position.  I'd be surprised if there were still 1.5 ats
> remaining after a normal draining.
>
> Garrick
>
> Scarlett Semko wrote:
> >
> > How did you drain your tranny?
> > I'm changing out my fluid but cannot get it all out.
> >
> > TIA
> > Ron Semko
> > 84 Vanagon
> >
> > Garrick Chang wrote:
> >
> > > > ***There is about 1.5 qt of the ~3.2 qt capacity of the trans that is
> > > > trapped, so only getting out 1.5 to 2 qts sounds correct.
> > >
> > > I couldn't find the capacity in either the owners manual or Bentley but
> > > I did drain about 3.5 qts out yesterday and put in 4 qts of Mobil-1.
> > >
> > > Garrick
>

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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