The MB hydraulic fluid is kind of green, once in the resevoir bottle it looks much darker. If the fluid is coming out of the bleeder screw at the leveling valve it is most likely nitrogen permeating through the diaphragm material. I know when my accumulators were shot my fluid came out looking like sea foam.

I think the pump is low pressure/high volume. When the motor is runniing, with the resevoir cap dipstick out you can watch the fluid flow into the bottle. It runs like a slow tap and the fluid sort of falls into the strainer filter. If the car rises and lowers quickly when you manually move the lever on the leveling valve, that is another sign of blown accumulators. Mine did the same. Afer replacement I could still manually raise and lower the car, but it was at a slower rate.

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