Re: Tranny Woes

[Jim Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

Meat wrote:
> 
> tonight i changed the tranny oil in my rocco to Castrol Syntec 75/90 fully
> synthetic. first off let me say that in order to do this job you need and
> 11/16 nut and bolt to open the drain hole and fill hole.
> 
> anyways, my grinding going into 3rd has noticeably changed in a matter of 2
> hours. and now to get the car not to grind going into reverse, all i have
> to do is put it into 1st, first. i figure in time, the shifting may improve
> even more. thank those nerdy scientists for synthetic oils!
> 
> now i have a question, i found a plate with some letter/ number comination
> on it. it says 4K19103. what is this? it can't be the tranny code, could
> it? BTW where do i find the tranny code again? my HAYNES (i know, i know)
> manual didn't show it very well.
> 
> tanx in advance.
> Sean Penny
> '84 Zender Z400 Scirocco (in progress)
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Any reason why not Redline MT90?  You probably wouldn't have ANY
grinding after using that.  It's that good!
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