On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Wesley Alden Pegden wrote:

> Someone else on the list asked about the color
> of the old fluid---mine was also a deep green...man, if that fluid had a
> 176,000 miles on it, I'm glad I changed it.

Mine was black.  It stank to high heaven and seemed awfully thin compared
to what I was putting in.  I've heard this stuff loses viscosity over time
because the gear teeth chop up the long-chain molecules.