View Single Post
      11-05-2018, 01:26 PM   #16
Efthreeoh
General
United_States
17306
Rep
18,733
Posts

Drives: The E90 + Z4 Coupe & Z3 R'ster
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Virginia

iTrader: (0)

Quote:
Originally Posted by pjr710 View Post
yea this is all good advice .. i've been researching ... i think its a stretch to have CHF11S be red. It was def red not dirty brownish.

My next step is i'm going to identify it by smell. I hear CHF11s smells like grape cought syrup? ... this fluid I have does not. I just changed my tranny and diff fluid .. i'd say it has more of a strong odor like the diff fluid did if anything.

also what are you talking about bleeding the system dry? If I was gunna do a swap I think I'd get the return hose and put it in a catch can, top up the resevoir, keep it topped off, and just cycle the system until the fluid coming out of the return was the new fluid.

That seems like one of the most efficient ways.
I mean, if you disconnect the lines you can drain most all the fluid out and the system for a few seconds runs without being fully filled with fluid.
Appreciate 0