Two things to do right now.

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

I was expecting you to tell us to get a bolt kit installed in light of
Joe's woes! And of course that would take care of the fresh gear oil issue,
and likely outer bell housing sludge too. Clean engine parts also let you
see when new drips start, if there's already a pile of greasy crap on the
outside it's harder to tell what's new. But that's a good point about the
grunge, I never thought of it in terms of heat dissipation. And one more
thing, don't use gloss black paint, it makes oil drips hard to spot.
Cathy

On 8:13 am 09/14/07 "Dan Bubb" <jdbubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Several of us in Maryland had another tech day last weekend to
> replace Roger's transmission. This simply reinforced what I've run
> across before. If you haven't already done these two items, do them
> as soon as possible.
>
> 1. Drain and refill your tranny if you haven't done it recently or
> since you bought the car. Get the crap out of it and know how much gear
> lube is in it. There were a lot of tranny failures this year, mostly
> 5th gear failures, and getting new gear lube and the right quantity in
> there will go a long way to prevent that. http://forums.vwvortex.com/z
> erothread?id=3433805
>
> 2. Replace the seal between the oil cooler and the filter mounting
> bracket! Most old seals will just leak. This seal gets hard and will
> leak oil all over the front of your engine, but it can also crack and
> drain your oil out on the road in a couple minutes leaving you
> stranded. Another related thought is that a tranny I took apart
> recently had the sludgiest parts I've ever seen. It was also extremely
> dirty on the outside. I assume that the dirt on the outside caused the
> tranny to run hot and cause the sludge. I know it's a total pain in the
> ass for some of you, but you might want to consider pressure washing
> your engine compartment and in particular the transmission.
>
> HTH
> Dan
>
>
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