Hi Volks:

A fellow listee (Bob Berkemer) suggested the following maintenance task in a
p-mail - and I am posting it with his permission:

>
>Check the level of the gear oil in your differential. Often overlooked in
>automatic vanagons. When I bought mine used from a VW dealer it was
>empty.........
>Fill to level of hole. A bit messy if you over fill and the gear oil stinks
>but its a cheap maintenance procedure and important.

Remember the 80-90 weight gear oil is for the
differential.... the part of the tranny with the axles coming out. Putting
gear
oil in the automatic would NOT be a "value added activity"!!

Marshall Ruskin