[V8] Leaking Red Fluid UH-OH

[Kneale Brownson]

Only red fluid should be the tranny fluid.  To measure tranny fluid if you
have the dipstick, you should have the car thoroughly warmed up (like
driving at highway speeds for 15-20 minutes), sitting level and idling.  If
the garage thinks there should be red fluid in your power steering system,
I'd be looking for some other service place.

At 11:44 PM 4/13/2005 -0400, driverv8 at aol.com wrote:
> I have been a lurker for months because the beast has been running great.
>No problems. 
>Now I see many drops of a red fluid, which I would call Automatic 
>Transmission fluid, on my garage floor. 
>I took the car today to a repair shop, one which has repaired the car in the 
>past, and the owner told me it was the power steering rack. 
> 
>That just didn't sit right with me. 
>
>SO, the question for this group is, what is the color and look/feel of the 
>fluid in the beloved rack system?
>Pentosin Green or Auto trans red?
>
>I crawled under the car, and the red stuff is leaking from the drivers side, 
>high up on the engine, near the fill tube, now leaking onto the bushings and 
>related hardware on the drivers side. 
> 
>Shop wanted to replace the rack.  $2000.  I have the car back in the garage.  
>Only other symptom, was, that I measured the level of the auto trans fluid 
>while the engine was running, in park.  It was low, and I refilled.  I will 
>check that again tomorrow.
> 
>Is this fluid Rack related or Auto Trans related? 
>Thanks,
>Scott Olson
>1990 V8 
>130k
> 
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