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Re: Pan gasket (was:Re: Governor o-ring (was:Re: [T3] Passed test - good and bad news))

<x-flowed>Next year's models will have "factory-sealed, lifetime no-maintenance ashtrays".

Daniel


Russ Wolfe wrote:

You can pull the pan off a newish automatic, and you will find those
metal bits. It's from break-in of the thrust washers, and such. That is
why the screen is there, to filter them out, and they fall back into the
pan.

Yep. Check this out: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1064342

"Normal" wear, at least according to modern VW specs. How else would they explain the existence of "lifetime" fluids otherwise?

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