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On 27 Apr 2001, at 16:47, Greg Merritt wrote: > At 3:42 PM -0400 4/28/01, Mark Healey wrote: > > > >About the magnet, I was thinking about breaking it and sticking a > >piece on the end of my oil drain plug. Is that a good idea? > > It's such a good idea, that somebody already thought of it. ;) You > can buy drain plugs with magnets in them for about five bucks or so. I use > them on my cars. Does anyone have any experience with these? I don't, but I wonder if they would ever pick anything up since most of the stuff that wears off in an engine is non-magnetic. > I believe that the transmission drain plug comes with a magnet from > the factory. Yes, and here they make lots of sense since the wear particles are all steel from the gears. When you drain the tranny you also need to clean out the crud from the magnet(s). - ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/