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My Walmart has a full lineup of Rotella oil in stock. Quarts and gallons of 15W40 and 5W40. The local Murrays also has the 5W40 and 15W40 in gallons.

Originally Posted By: BriantheBrain If you are on a Municipal sewer, contact them. I know where I live, I called them and said that antifreeze was safe for the sewer. Just another food source for the bacteria. Same here. I just dump it along the curb and wash it down with a 5 gallon bucket of water.

Regular coolant changes negate the need to do flushes to clear out built up crud. I have always drained/refilled my radiators every 2-3 years. Doing it this way, I have never had to do a flush to clear out junk because there has never been any. Replacing the coolant regularly also helps to keep...

LOL. It will be used in the lawnmower and snowthrower......not quite what Shell had in mind when they cracked it, but my little 4 cycles should last a lifetime with that oil in them.

I don't know what "group" Castrol Syntec 5W40 falls into, but it meets VW 502/505 specs, along with other European specs. I get it at Autozone....usually on sale for 5qts with a K&N or Mobil 1 filter for $26-$29.

There's only a couple of ways that crud got into your trans..........either from a external opening or from internal failure.

I always change out old ATF without fear of losing the trans. I've changed out a lot of old ATF, the last one being a ~135K mile 87 GMC Jimmy (full size) with a 700R4 trans that appeared to have not had the pan touched since the truck left GM. I dropped the pan, cleaned the gunk out, changed the...

VW rant to ensue. VW did make changing (and checking) the ATF a real pain. Changing the final drive lube is a real bear too as VW did not put a drain/fill plug on the differential part of the automatic transaxle-at least not that I'm aware of. That would've been too easy. And I still can't...

I have a feeling the 5W40 weight is eventually going to replace the 15W40 as the diesel standby. That is once people get past the "fear factor" of running a 5 instead of a 15.

Cleared out my old oil supply and found 3 unopened gallons of SL rated Rotella. At one time I religiously used this in my Jeep, but haven't touched it in over a year now that I run Rotella 5W40 in it. Should I sell this stuff on ebay or should I just run it in the lawmower & snowthrower to use...

Road rage wouldn't exist if people knew how to drive. Some people just do not deserve to have a driver's license.

Originally Posted By: c3po I just cannot figure out why only 1 wire is going bad. Accel makes good wires. I ran their 300+ race wires for years on my old Z28 that used a MSD billet distributor, MSD HVC coil and MSD 6AL box. I went through 2 cap/rotor changes before I replaced those wires and...

I use Castrol Syntec 5W40 in my VW. The bottle says it is VW approved and my Autozone always stocks it, so I use it. I used Shell Rotella T 5W40 prior to finding the Syntec.

All converters waste energy with cold or hot fluid due to slippage. That all goes away when they go into lockup mode though. Lockup is the only time a converter is efficient due to the lack of slippage-fluid also runs slightly cooler too as a fringe benefit.

No need to use anything on drain plug bolts. Install them dry.

Any high quality, synthetic 85W140 will work just fine. I prefer a thicker gear lube for greater shock protection/cushioning of the gears on hard launches.

Just get the new pan with the plug in it. I went with a deep pan with plug and was glad I did. More fluid capacity and cooler running fluid were added benefits.

I only use OEM VW ATF in my late model VWs and change it and the filter religously every 50,000 miles. Make sure you suck out that final drive lube as well...........

Originally Posted By: SecondMonkey My dad needs some transmission fluid for his 2001 Dodge Dakota with the 4.7L V8. I have no idea what transmission it has. The guy at Napa told him he needs Dexron/Mercon III...but I thought Chrysler transmissions use special fluid? What is the specified fluid...

Originally Posted By: Nathan You can't trust stock analog gauges. Most only have three settings: cold, operating temp, overheating. I'm running a mechanical AutoMeter Ultralite temp gauge in addition to the factory gauge in the dash pod. Both read the same operating temp.