This is a quiz.
This green fluid was drained from one of my Cougars. It is not anti freeze. This is about 2 1/2 gallons.
It’s transmission fluid from a CVT or constant velocity transmission commonly found in Ford Freestyles and Ford 500s.
…Or it’s green jello left over from St. Patrick’s day.
Nope. Found in a '68 Cougar.
What drain plug or orifice did it come out of?
Bad gasoline?
Berns68 (Mike wins) Have you guys ever seen anything like this?
Bill, I just googled “green gasoline” and there are all kinds of answers but nothing seems definitive. Most responses just say the gasoline has gone bad. I’m just as curious as you now.
I have had old gas come out looking like Pepsi but this is a first. It is about 14 months old maybe a bit older…
Ach! Tha’s wha happens when ya drink too much green beer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9nHvmdAb4
The government has expanded area 51 to Cave creek AZ and a drunk alien from mars wonder outside the fence and took a leak in a bucket Bill left outside the garage.
May be one of the trace metals is present in heavier concentration than usual and has changed state (Nickel, Copper, Cobalt & Manganese). Any gasoline stabilizer added?
I think it might have some small amount of StaBil in it but it is red in color…
Did it smell like gasoline?
I wonder if this stuff (or equivalent): https://www.goldeagle.com/product/sta-bil-360-marine or http://lucasoil.com/products/marine-products/marine-fuel-treatment could be why. It is green, use it on my boat engines for winterization/fuel preservation.
My first guess was going to be Brad Penn oil with ZZP. It comes out of the bottle green and turns brown once it’s run in an engine.
Slurm.
It is gas, or at least was gas… It smells like shellac or rotten paint. Definite bad gas smell.
Googling “formation of gum in gasolines” lead me to read that to this may be the result of chelation (association) of excess copper with the stabiliser contained in Stabil (may be N,N disalicylidene diamino propane which is very effective in that respect according to professor L. Ackermann). Copper and other metals are known to accelerate the formation of gum in cracked gasolines.
Interesting. The only StaBil I have is red in color out of the bottle.
The “excess copper” Dan described would turn it green.