Lubro Moly ATF III observation

[ccdhowell]

I fretted over what ATF to put in my '02 Land Rover Disco for the better part of a month, you know the BITOG disease....right!

Finally decided to use the Lubro Moly ATF III after an email exchange with Lubro Moly in Germany. The fluid isn't listed as meeting Dexron III specs on their website, but the person on the other end of the email assured me that it did. Well, got the bottles in, via internet order, and sure enough, right there on the bottle was the Dexron III spec.

I drained the pan and refilled it today and was totally surprised when I started to put the new fluid in that it isn't red, it's clear. It looks mostly like heavy water. I thought there was a universal red coloring on ATF. Maybe it's just my limited experience with European fluids, but I was expecting red.

Anyway, coloring aside, I feel just swell, German transmission, now with German fluid. All is right with the world.

 

[Gary Allan]

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Anyway, coloring aside, I feel just swell, German transmission, now with German fluid. All is right with the world.

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(visions of Robert Mitchum in The Enemy Below (1957) where, at one point, the German U-boat commander (Curd Jürgens) puts on a phonograph record that can be heard clearly in the destroyers sonar as they played cat and mouse)

To YOU, my friend and YOU, my friend and all of us together ......

(imagine Bavarian Beer festival in progress. The song is "So Leben Wir", a drinking song the direct translation is "and so we live and thus we live")

[ May 17, 2006, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: Gary Allan ]

 

[windnsea00]

I buy that fluid at our local Euro parts store and run it in a `97 318ti and `93 325is. I use their 75w90 synthetic for the diffs. Works great!