I was having a nice private time working under my Olds to day . The vacuum booster came out nicely, no problems at all . I might as well top off all the fluids Just for the hell of it being as I had the time. Topped off the power steering pot, put down the jug, checked the power brake reservoir, down a little, grabbed the same power steering bottle and FILLED HUR UP. I caught it at that point. brakes were not used at all. spent the next two hours filling and siphoning fluid out of the reservoir. Went through four bottles. Do you think the brakes will be OK after this? or should I clean the whole system? God I hate it when I do stupid stuff....Tedd

 

I think you are fine if you emptied the resovoir and flushed the system.

Reminds me of the bone headed move I made a few months ago. I pulled up to get diesel in my truck and started filling it up with gas I caught myself about 2 gallons in and finished the fill with diesel and a quart of ATF to add some lube to the gas. Nothing came of it but I sure was sweating for the next few days.

 

I dumped a qt of ATF in my truck motor one time............No side effects surprisingly...

 

ATF is great for cleaning motors. Your brakes should be fine as long as they weren't used and siphoned out right away..

 

x3 with the brakes you should be good to go.

 

Boy, that WAS dumb. I put two gallons of Diesel in my Vette before I realized it. I was in Montana coming back from a cross country trip. Luckily nothing came of it and I filled up two more times before I got home...with gas. Some friends told me that small amount probably just lubricated the engine. It turned out OK.

 

my buddy just did the same thing on his model a, all new brakes, stainless lines master, prop valve, filled with atf or powersteering fluid by mistake and bled through system before noticing unopened brake fluid on bench, had to bleed through and replace all wheel cylinders, master, prop valve, $$$$$$$$

 

Craig:
Using ATF to "clean" the motor? 1 quart w/4 qts oil at oil change? Run how long? Then change again, w/5 qts? Seems I remember this procedure from long ago. The CCRider ('92 Custom Cruiser) has 200,500 miles, and know there is carbon build-up internally. Will this do the trick? Runs well, I got her w/175K on her about 2 1/2 years ago.
Aron

 

The song "Ring of Fire" was written by Johnny Cash after he mistook a tube of Ben-Gay for one of Preperaration-H.

 

You ain't right, lol!!!!!!!

 

I hate that when it happens!

 

Aron, it's not so much decarboning the engine as it is extra detergency for the oil.

Standard procedure for noisy lifters at the local Cad-Olds dealer was to change oil & filter, and replace 1 quart of oil with 1 quart of ATF. If the noise hadn't quietened down by next scheduled oil change, then they'd replace lifters. They did very few lifter jobs. The ATF would clean sludge out of the valvetrain, much as Rislone or Marvel Mystery Oil does.

Carbon-X or Top Engine Cleaner (SeaFoam by any other name) is what you need to decarbon the combustion chambers, though with modern fuel injection I think buildup would be minimal if it's had good quality fuel run in it.

 

I hope someone can top this for stupidity, because my act was extremely stupid. Went to do the first oil change on my new '09 truck shortly after I bought it and removed the starter instead of the oil filter. Well the darn starter was located right next to the oil drain pan. Once I got the starter out, a ball bearing fell out of it [not good ]. So I finally got the starter mounted back to the engine and the thing wouldn't even turn over. Had to have the truck towed to the dealer and a reconditioned starter put in my brand new truck for $500 I hope someone can top that because then I won't be the most stupid person around!

 

I feel like the priest in a confessional. "My son all is forgiven say 6-hail Marys put car parts in he bin outside the door.

I'm not telling all of my stupid stuff. It would be to long of a list to post.

 

X 2 I'd be typing with nubs.

 

It's easy to be so centered on what your working on and grab the wrong product your looking for. Been there,done that.

 

Yep, I did it, I put transmission fluid in the master cyl. tried to siphon it out best I could but it was a costly mistake in the long run. had to change out all the rubber parts. 1990 chevy truck.

 

This has nothing to do with cars but.... A friend of mine was hunting and had to take a dump.After he was done he said he kept smelling it.He looked on his shoes and there was nothing on them.Then later he fliped the hood on his cover-alls up over his head.He said I found out where the smell was coming from.I think the only thing dumber than that was telling someone you did it!
I worked with a boy once who told me they where driving around one night when he notice the lights getting dim.Thinking the battery was going dead,when he pulled up to a red light.He shut it off to see if It'd start again.Guess what happened.Boy you just can't make this stuff up!
railguy

 

Ted,

I grabbed the green Diesel handle at the gas station once, and a kid, no older than perhaps 16-17 said, "I didn't know those old cars ran on diesel." For all I know, I might have never noticed and filled the whole tank. This lapse in memory "disease" we suffer from can be summed up by the following vignette:

A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention
Deficit Disorder.


This is how it manifests:

I decided to wash my car.
As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the
hall table.
I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.
I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the trashcan
under the table, and notice that the trashcan is full.
So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the trash first.
But then I think, since I'm going to be near the mailbox when I
take out the trash anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.
I take my checkbook off the table, and see that there is only one
check left.
My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go to my desk
where I find the bottle of soda that I had been drinking.
I'm going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the soda
aside so that I don't accidentally knock it over.
I see that the soda is getting warm, and I decide I should put it
in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the soda, a vase of flowers on
the counter catches my eye--they need to be watered.
I set the soda down on the counter, and I discover my reading
glasses that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I'm going to
water the flowers.
I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with
water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen
table.
I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, we will be looking
for the remote, but nobody will remember that it's on the kitchen table, so
I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I'll water
the flowers.
I splash some water on the flowers, but most of it spills on the
floor. So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and
wipe up the spill. Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was
planning to do.
At the end of the day: the car isn't washed, the bills aren't paid,
there is a warm bottle of soda sitting on the counter, the flowers aren't
watered, there is still only one check in my checkbook, I can't find the
remote, I can't find my glasses, and I don't remember what I did with the car
keys.
Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I'm
really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I'm really
tired.

 

Back in HS, my friend put gasoline in a car that ran on diesel (or vice-versa cant recall for sure). It did not run too long after we left the gas station.

 

Sounds like my daily routine.

 

Someone has been spying on me no fair!!