Re: A little knowledge is dangerous

["mark hausler" <greenchester@scirocco.zzn.com>]

---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Brad Sterling <bgsterling@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sat, 15 May 1999 08:24:55 -0700
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: A little knowledge is dangerous

Hi all,

    This is non-roc, but it could happen.  My girlfriend, in an attempt
to top off her engine oil in her RX7, added about a 1/4 cup of brake
fluid to her engine.  I guess I'm doing an oil change today.  How
worried about this should I be?  I've never thought about the
implications of putting brake fluid in an engine.  Any experiences (not
yours, of course, it was a "friend")?  Should I still warm up the engine
before the change?  What's the best way to get all of this crap out of
the engine?

    BTW, it was leftover fluid from when we bled her clutch.  I had used
an oil bottle to catch the bled fluid.  She's not that clueless.  I
guess I should have made the trip to get rid of my hazardous wastes
sooner.

-Brad




Brad,

Has it been run wiht it in there? I would drain it all right away. Change the filter. Then I would fill it with some regular oil and then put in a engine flush like the stuff AMSOil has. You use it before converting to synthetic oil but will probably get most of it out. THe AMS stuff you run the engine for 10-20 minutes at idle and then drain the oil and change the filter. Thus for this cleaning oil and filter get the cheap stuff. You are using it just to clean the engine anyway.

Hope this helps. I really don't know what brake fluid would do but it is pretty nasty stuff.

Good luck.


mark hausler
'81 scirocco s
'94 toyo 4x4
Get your free Scirocco e-mail!!  your_name@scirocco.zzn.com
___________________________________________________________
Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com

--
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org