Old VW Automatics - Care and Feeding

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

No, don't misunderstand.  If you have a leak between the two, yes, the
differential oil kills the inner workings of the ATM.  However, if you do as
you seem to suggest and change the fluid, you would still have a problem,
right?  Perhaps this is my error since I did not think of this problem when
posting...  No matter...  If the tranny fluid smells like manual tranny
fluid (sulfurous type smell), you have troubles...

As to the frequent changing of the oil, if the car has had that done since
the beginning, I doubt you would have a problem.  However, if it has not,
this in my expereince will cause more troubles than help...

David

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Eric S
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2004 9:41 PM
To: T Berk
Cc: Scirocco email List
Subject: Re: Old VW Automatics - Care and Feeding


That IS the main problem, and only real way to tell is to check your
fluids often (contrary to David's belief that you should leave it
alone...uh, David, not noticing the mixing is what kills these autos).

My advise (from a previous auto tranny ower WITH leaky seals), change both
diff and atf every 6 months if you cannot afford the swap to manual, or
the cost of replacing that seal.  My old 83 still lives on to this day
doing that every 6 months...remember, this was the car I took to ND, then
the following week to Cincy quite a few years back.

--
Eric
www.vintagewatercooleds.com

1981 Scirocco S (TDI swap project)
1988 Audi 90 Quattro
1990 Corrado TDI
1991 Cabriolet (2.0 crossflow 8v project)

T Berk said:
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>
> Seeing as how we have a 'new' 87 Auto in the fold (congrats) and there
> is an otherwise fine Auto Rabbit in my backyard, I wanted to go over
> care and maintenance of old VW automatics.
>
> Here is what I have picked up:
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>
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> - There is a seal between the ATF and the Differential oil that fails
> and allows the two to mix. This is death to autos.
>
>
>
> Anybody have anything else?
> TBerk
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