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but that is unrelated. Automatic transmission fluid isn't circulating through the engine on any vehicle by design that I have seen.

Plenty of vehicles with a standard gearbox just use the engine oil as the transmission lubricant. In motorcycles this is called "unit construction". I've heard of some older Saabs that did this as well.




> The resulting corrosion allowed mixing of oil and coolant.

Why is that unrelated?


because the mixing the article talks about it transmission oil and coolant.

When a passageway cracks in a cylinder head & engine oil becomes "milkshake" that is the mixing of engine oil and coolant. Two separate kinds of oil in different places.




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