Date:         Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:28:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Antaki <wrack@ATTBI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Antaki <wrack@ATTBI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
Comments: To: Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <F144AwfrEJSELGL85Ha000225ff@hotmail.com>
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No, I haven't changed oil yet in the Wolfie, having recently put a
fairly fresh fill of regular dino oil in it. However, when my Syncro
trans is rebuilt, it will start off with Swepco.

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Dorm [mailto:mark_hb@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 5:27 PM
To: wrack@ATTBI.COM; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco



Have you put this Swepco stuff in yet? All I want to know right now, is
can you personally feel/tell a difference.... When I first added Redline
oil to my automatic tranny (Redline D4) I noticed an improvement, of
course, I was noticing the difference between old non synthetic and new
synthetic... but when my tranny was serviced prior to that adding in run
of the mill dexron I didn't notice a difference.... . does non synthetic
break down to a chalkiness... Is your vanagon automatic? .... I'm really
interested in this post/thread... would like the feedback...



>From: Antaki
>Reply-To: Antaki
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
>Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 01:10:06 -0800
>
>I will try to remember to ask when I visit them again next week.
>You must be talking about this:?
>http://www.swepcousa.com/lubesite/gear.htm
>
>Check out the 601:
>http://www.swepcousa.com/lubesite/spec.htm
>
>
>Ron
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Zoran Mladen [mailto:zmaninco@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:32 PM
>To: Antaki; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Red Line vs. Swepco
>
>
>So Im checking out the website. Which one is
>recommended? The 212?
>
>
>
>--- Antaki wrote:
> > Hi all, not that I like open this old can of worms,
> > but -
> >
> > I used to love Red Line trans oil, run it in my
> > Scirocco 16V, my Vanagon
> > trans, and it seemed like the best available-
> > **Until Last Night**!!!
> >
> > Background:
> > While at S Car Go, (www.scargoracing.com) a shop in
> > Marin county that
> > prepares Porsches for racing, builds custom engines,
> > headers, you name
> > it! They have one that puts out 500HP at the rear
> > wheels!. Indeed they
> > are widely known in Porsche racing circles, and do
> > most excellent work.
> >
> > The Point of this message:
> > I noticed that the only kind of oil in their shop is
> > Swepco. One of them
> > had a transaxle apart on the bench, and I asked him
> > his opinion of Red
> > Line vs Swepco. He told me that Red Line breaks down
> > into a chalky
> > deposit on the parts, and leaves a thin liquid
> > behind. He then showed
> > me, on the parts he was working on, exactly what he
> > just told me. He
> > scraped the goo deposit off of a gear, and I could
> > see that the stuff
> > coating the parts was red, and there was a layer of
> > what looked like
> > watery oil on some parts. He also told me that he
> > can take one look and
> > tell what was run in a gearbox, and sees a lot of
> > Red Line-lubricated
> > trannys come in broken.
> >
> > They run ONLY Swepco oils and lubricants in these
> > awesome, beautiful,
> > hand built, ex-freaking-spensive machines.
> >
> > I'm sold. It's Swepco from now on for my trans oil
> > from now on, and if I
> > upgrade from Mobil 1 Synth in my engines, it will be
> > to Swepco. I'll
> > even look for their greases for the important
> > stuff...
> >
> > >rant off
> >
> > Thanks for listning,
> >
> > Ron Antaki
> > '88 Wolfsburg (das all-purpose machine)
> > '86 Syncro Westy (escape machine)
> > '88 Scirocco 16V 2.0L (yee, I say, yee haaa!!)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vanagon Mailing List
> > [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
> > Of John Rodgers
> > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:01 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Manual Tranny Oil Change
> >
> >
> > It's time to change the tranny oil on my 88 GL and
> > I'm sticking with
> > Redline MT90. I have been looking at the Tranny
> > section in Bentley, but
> > I'm dawgged if I can find a tranny drain plug in any
> > of the pictures or
> > drawings anywhere. Filler, yes! Drain, No!
> >
> > Can someone tell me where it is, and maybe point me
> > to a picture?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
>
>
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