On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Wesley Alden Pegden wrote: > Someone else on the list asked about the color > of the old fluid---mine was also a deep green...man, if that fluid had a > 176,000 miles on it, I'm glad I changed it. Mine was black. It stank to high heaven and seemed awfully thin compared to what I was putting in. I've heard this stuff loses viscosity over time because the gear teeth chop up the long-chain molecules. |
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