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Old 03-31-2012, 09:50 AM
shertex shertex is offline
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Originally Posted by cscmc1 View Post
Thanks, Shertex. As for the trans fluid, p.o. was quite good about maintenance, too, and said that it had been changed by his indy recently. Since it was nice & red with no odd smell right up until the reverse failure, I had no reason to think otherwise. I did, however, buy a filter and gasket for eventual replacement anyway, so those are sitting in the garage.
That's weird....so I guess the failure resulted in some disintegrated parts which caused the fluid to turn brown suddenly?
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