Making Progress

[pbureau@attbi.com (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

maybe I don't get the point of this thread.

pop the damn screw to the speedometer cable, and fill that sucker up with a
long nose funnel by the speedometer hole.
add 2 quarts close up, start car... your done.

geez, why get overly complicated for something that gets changed every 30K

Patrick

=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of John C. Worden
=>Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:38 AM
=>To: cwass99@rogers.com; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
=>Subject: Re: Making Progress
=>
=>
=>At 08:20 PM 4/23/02 -0400, cwass99@rogers.com wrote:
=>
=>>      Flushed the transaxle on the Little Beastie and poured in
=>2 quarts of
=>>Redline MTL. That stuff is expensive ($40 for the 2 bottles with
=>tax), but
=>>WOW!
=>>  A couple unexplained noises have now been successfully
=>vanquished.  I've
=>> only
=>>driven it to work and back once so far, but it seems to shift smoother,
=>>especially into second.  Once again, this list comes through with an
=>>outstanding suggestion.
=>>      All that's left to do is replace the shift linkage
=>bushings (waiting for
=>>my questions to the PotterMan to receive a response) and replace
=>the warm-up
=>>regulator to solve the nasty idle problem and it's as good as
=>the day I bought
=>>it.  Better actually, with the upgraded exhaust and suspension :)
=>>      Only minor problem was getting the speedometer gear back in
=>> correctly.  I
=>>hate that little bolt.  It's back in, but it brings up an interesting
=>>question.
=>>  Other than putting the fluid in through the Speedo hole in
=>top, what other
=>>places do people pour the fluid through into the transaxle?  I
=>could never
=>>figure out an easy and effective way to pour through the filler
=>hole in the
=>>side.
=>>
=>>--
=>>Cheers,
=>>Colin
=>
=>I hope you didn't pay $40 US for the Redline!  I got an idea for filling
=>the transaxle.
=>Any of you who have or have seen a kerosene heater probably saw
=>the little pump
=>used to fill them.  It's a squeeze deal with a long pickup and a
=>hose.  When the
=>transfer case on my truck was leaking a while back I got the idea
=>to use this
=>because it just as hard to fill as a VW transaxle.  With one of these you
=>could
=>pump the gear oil right into the whole you check the level from.
=>
=>
=>John C. Worden
=>Bucksport, Maine
=>
=>'98 Dakota 4x4-Just rolled 100K
=>'86 Scirocco 8V-
=>'81 Scirocco 2.0 16V -
=>'78 Scirocco Brazil Brown Metallic,  4 speed.
=>