She's adorable, though.
Ugh. Lubing trannies, yeah. Bill, the AG is actually used for two things when building automatic transmissions. One, it's a very high viscosity oil (or soft wax, depending how you look at it, either way it has LOOOOOONNNg HC chains) and is used to provide a protective film on the delicate lips of automatic transmission piston seals during installation. Usually installation is effected with a wire loop or feeler-gauge-like tool expressly for the purpose and it's easy to nick a lip and have an expensive failure in short order. The goo is like an extra layer of protection to help keep that from happening. The other thing, and this makes it indispensable for many purposes, is an adhesive to stick thrust washers, loose bearing rollers, sprag elements, check balls, and all sorts of fiddly bits in place until final assembly. Once the unit reaches 130° or so, the goo melts and dissolves into the ATF. You NEVER want to use axle or chassis grease for this because the soap matrix plugs up fluid filters.
I wanted to use the AG in soap lube in place of Vaseline because it's a paraffin (not slippery), can take the heat, and is loaded with all sorts of anti-oxidants and anti-corrosion additives. AI keeps the oil/wax from oxidizing and AC keeps metal from corroding. We were searching for a middle modifier to plasticize waxes without making the lube too slick. Great plan except it didn't work. After a whole bunch of "provocation/elimination" we finally isolated AG as the cause of flyers and general unpredictability. Of course I was using like 30%, so there's that.