by jetpacjimmy » 30 Jul 2011, 14:29
total saga but looking like I might be on the home straight. Got up at 8.30 and my girlfriend stayed in van while I visited every one of Bristol's motor factors looking for the right thing, turns out they don't like it if you can't quote your reg number, no traffic warden though, typical! Ended up at the dealer who didn't have one and then a vw dub specialist further out of town who did. Anyway, that didn't fit but the specialist told me that the sump might have been drilled in the past. So I phoned the previous owner, it's a 1.6D sump, got the right plug for that, still too small, aaargh! Back to Halfords and measured it up by eye figuring I didn't have much to lose, bingo!
Now I've put about 4 litres of oil in but nothing is showing on the dipstick, does the oil go straight to the sump or do I need to wait until it works it's way through? Or do I need more that 4 litres? I assume it's pretty empty as it had stopped dripping out of the hole.