And I thought it was bad when my S.O. added windshield washer fluid this =
winter. Problem was, she added antifreeze to the washer tank. What a =
mess!
Regards,
Chris Delling
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Gigante [SMTP:mikeg@vicnet.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 6:13 PM
To: ROBERT G. HOWARD
Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: The Change - Oil, that is. Novices take Heed!
My sister in law borrowed our family sedan (Ford Falcon) and thought =
she'd
do the right thing and check oil, water after her trip. She told us she =
had
to
top up the radiator with half a litre or so. OK, no probs.
Except that she added water to the power steering reservoir which ended =
up
costing us a power steering pump, new hoses and a rack rebuild. The =
trouble
was that we didn't realise what had happened until a pink foam started
bubbling
out of the PS filler cap... By then the damage was done...
Ouch.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: ROBERT G. HOWARD <mgbob@juno.com>
To: gardner7@pilot.infi.net <gardner7@pilot.infi.net>
Cc: mgbob@juno.com <mgbob@juno.com>; mgs@autox.team.net =
<mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, March 19, 1998 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: The Change - Oil, that is. Novices take Heed!
>Scott,
> That reminds me of the time that my bro-in-law stopped at a filling
>station (what is now known as a full service station) with his Renault
>Dauphine. The attendant checked the oil and announced that it was a
>quart low, so Phil told him to add the quart. He did, and Phil drove =
off.
> A few minutes later the temp gauge went off the end and the engine
>boiled over. Apparently the attendent read "EAU" (water) on the =
radiator
>filler as OIL.
> That was a great car for us, at a time when the CT beer-buying age =
was
>21 and NY State was only 18. There was a rubber plug at the bottom of
>the front trunk on the car, so a screen placed there would retain the
>ice, and a round trip to NY would get the car back with a trunk full of
>cold brew.
>Bob
>
>>I had something similar happen on my Honda about ten years ago.
>> I had loaned it to my brother for a while, and he took it to the
>>local Jiffy-Lube or Jet-Lube, I can't remember which. When I got the
>>car back, one of the old receipts said that they had topped off the
>>power steeing reservoir with one pint of fluid. Problem is, the 1981
>>Prelude never had power steering! best I could figure, they poured a
>>pint of P.S. fluid into the clutch reservoir. Never had any problems
>>with it. I figured that if nothing had happened in the 2000 miles
>>between when the shop did it and when I got the car back from my
>>brother, nothing bad was likely to come of it.
>>Scott
>>
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