Very dark blue...but the gear lube is quite thick. Took a good hour to fill
my tranny via "gravity" thru a 3/4" hose recently. Not the least bit "thin"
and runny.

Bob

Swepco oil is blue.  I don't know of any other gear oil that is blue. But
what I don't know would fill the Grand Canyon;-)

Cory

 > O.K.... I figured I better crawl under and check my tranny oil.
 > I've had the bus for a month now and still haven't looked....
 > I figured out real quick that my 17mm allen wrench doesn't fit
 > because all that external shift crap is in the way.
 > I cut the allen down with the die grinder and cut-off wheel. About
 > an inch off the end and it fits nice. I pulled the plug out of the tranny
 > and it was obviously full, as a small dribble of oil ran out of the plug
 > hole and down my arm. Mmmmm, that distinctive stench of gear oil....
 > But wait, what's this..?  Ackkk! The oil is BLUE!
 >
 > O.K, I've checked the gear oil in a lot of VW trannys over the last
 > few decades but I ain't never had nothin blue run down my arm
 > while I was doing it...
 >
 > I assume that the oil is probably something synthetic. It stinks like
 > regular gear oil, but it's clear blue, and rather thin in consistency
 > compared to plain old 90w gear goo.
 >

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