Before installing that "liquid gold" Red Line tranny oil, I did a warm
drain of the old, replaced it with regular non-synthetic gear oil, ran
it for a few days, drained that, then put in the Red Line.

This a safe "flush" that limits residual old oil carryover.

Steve Frisbee
85 westy

---"Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET> wrote:
>
>     Im the guy who ask about the flushing. I got several answers,
all of
> which were along the lines of "Flushing wont do any harm but you
dont really
> need to."
>     Mainstream opinion seems to be: Drive it around for a while to
warm
> things up, then drain. With a level van this will leave about a half
quart
> of the "old stuff" still in there  but since Readline is compatable
with the
> old stuff it will do no harm.
>     As far as things to flush with the only two guys mentioned
anything
> specific. One  said to flush it with more Redline before sealing the
drain
> hole and topping off. He also added that this would cost more than any
> benefit was worth so forget flushing.
>     The other guy said any benefit of getting all the old stuff out
of there
> with a commercial "flusher" may be offset by the gears running
without any
> lube at all during the time it took for the Redline to work its way
into the
> flushed out nooks and cranies that, being flushed, are bone dry
until the
> Redline gets there. He added that he had no idea how long this would
take or
> even if this was a factor but since the idea occured to him he
passed it
> along.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
> Of Michael Snow
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:39 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Tranny Gear Oil Change
>
>
> I picked up 4 quarts of Redline MT90 today with the intention of
> changing gear oil tomorrow.  I believe that someone asked
> recently whether it was advisable or beneficial to attempt to
> flush the old oil from the transmission using some type of
> solvent.  If there was an answer to this question, I missed it.
> Any thoughts or experience with this?
>
> Mike Snow
> 1982 Westy diesel
>

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