Thanks to everyone who responded to me! To let the list know, the consensus
was that there are quite a few people whom this happens to, and that usually
it means the car hasn't been run enough. I guess this is one of those
quirks that we'll have to get used to as long as we're Forward Look fans. .
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Mark mjh
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>> >MARK J HASH wrote:
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>> >> I have run my '57 Fury about once a month over the winter to keep
>> >> everything in working order, but the other day, after not having
>> >> started it for about a month it took a dump of transmission fluid.
>> >> Not very much, mind you, only about a cup or so. But it was enough to
>> >> worry me, so I asked my mechanic, whom I trust a lot, about it. He
>> >> said my car had done that periodically when I left it with him to do
>> >> paint/body work (while I was gone for a year in Bosnia), and that he
>> >> also had a '79 Chevy truck that had done the same thing to him for
>> >> years, without it ever meaning anything was broke.
>> >>
>> >> How can this be? With his truck he told me whenever it did this he
>> >> simply checked the trans fluid level and added as needed, which was
>> >> usually very little. Do the trans seals maybe occasionally "bulge" or
>> >> something to allow this little bit of fluid to escape, without causing
>> >> real harm, or is this a sympton of a problem that's immenent? Any
>> >> answers would be appreciated. . .
>> >>
>> >> Mark mjh
>> >> Mr. Finzzz
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