I'm confused? What are you guys seeing that's gold? That pan is the picture of after I blew out the filter with brake cleaner, the gold color stuff looked to me like just a mix of the brake cleaner and the oil. It was all clear liquid, I didn't see any grittyness or metallic sheen to it. The oil that came out of the filter before I hit it with brake cleaner had a gray look to it but not metallic either, at least I don't think so. You can see where it seperated from the brake cleaner there. I was thinking it was still assembly lube in there.