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Re: [T3] Another oil leak problems

<x-charset ISO-8859-1>On 28 Jan 2002, at 21:58, Peter Legault wrote:

> My wife’s 73 Square seems to have sprung a leak.  It seems to leak on the
> left side the left (or driver side) CV boot and drive shaft is wet as is the
> shock.

Is this square an AT or an MT?

>  I have been following the oil leak mystery string and I don’t believe it is
> X-mission fluid. It’s somewhat dirty under there and it doesn’t seem red.  I
> have a hard time getting an accurate transmission level reading, as the
> stick just seems to have fluid down the one side of it. Any tricks on
> getting a better reading?  I added a small amount of fluid to it.

Let some of it soak onto a white rag and then look at the color. ATF is red, 
gear oil and engine oil are both brown, but the gear oil has a very distinctive 
sulfur smell.

At this point it sounds like it could be any of the three.

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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