Mobil 1 in transaxel

[Douglas Frank]

JanDebL at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I drained out the M1 and installed Redline MT 90.  Today the

Jan,

What color was the Mobil 1 GL5 when you drained it?  An
acquaintance of mine had put a GL5 synthetic (Redline, I believe)
in his Triumph, which is also spec'd for GL4.  When he drained
it, the oil came out looking like a stream of pure gold, from all
the bronze dissolved in it.

I made the same mistake with my own Triumph.  Fortunately, the
oil was only in the differential for a month or so, and the car
sat still the whole time.  When I drained it to put in GL4, the
month-old oil had about a million tiny specs of gold dissolved in
it.

So, if the oil from your transaxle was resonably clean, and
didn't have a gold color, you're probably all right.
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