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What's your tune-up routine? Plus bonus ?s



Sounds great Nate - I'll drop my Scirocco off at 11 for you to do it's
tuneup.

I'll vote for the 75-90 gear oil. I'm using in (on Dans reccomendation) and
it's pretty nice.

Fuel filter?

GP


On 7/19/06, Nate Lowe <nlowe79@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Time to do my first tune up on my own. I'm planning on doing the air
> filter,
> fuel filter, plugs, wires, cap, rotor, coolant, and tranny fluid. Probably
> oil too since it's getting to be time. Is there anything else that
> should/could be done at this point?
>
> I've got a couple other questions also.
>
> How can I tell which distributor cap I need? The PO swapped in a 2.0 8v
> block with a 1.8 head into my 79, but I don't think anything was changed
> on
> the ignition side. Is it common to change any of that with that kind of
> swap? I don't have the metal shield on the cap, but there seems to be two
> other caps available from Potterman without the metal shield:
> this<http://www.parts4vws.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?PartNumber=03368
> >one
> and
> this <http://www.parts4vws.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?PartNumber=03010
> >one.
>
> Also, what brand of plugs do most of you prefer? I usually hear NGK or
> Bosch
> are good. Are platinum or silver tipped really worth the cost?
>
>
> Last question is about tranny fluid. Has anyone ever used GM Synchromesh
> with friction reducer before? I've been hearing very good things about it.
> What do most of you use?
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