For a while I was seeing a sparkle of droplets on my 90 across my rear
window when passing under street lights. It turned out to be power
steering fluid.

If you drive a diesel you will learn to diagnose the entire engine from
the size, color and pattern of the droplets.

Jim
On Nov 7, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Wil Haslup wrote:

> jimt wrote:
>> My rear hatch had mysterious oily grease on it and had me severely
>> confused for a while.  on mine i suddenly realized i was looking at
>> moly grease and i had blown the boot right off of the right outer cv
>> joint. almost all of the grease was contained inside of the housing
>> and not spread all over.
>> jimt
>
> I've had a light sprinkle of oil drops for some time.  It is nearly
> clear so I'm thinking it's motor oil but I lose very little motor
> oil....maybe half a quart in 3-5 tanks of gas.  I guess lots of drops
> might add up to that.  I see some leaking near the boot near the
> distributor and there is always a little near the filter and
> cooler...but I have yet to figure out how to stop it for sure.
>
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> Wil
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