Troy pulls a boner....

So I forgot to mention this earlier, and in the interest of full disclosure
as to my lack of wrenchin abilities ( after seeing saddles post ), I figured
I would tell my most recent boner story.

So there I am last weekend, changing whatever oils are left in my vehicles,
and I'm down to the 650. Last summer/fall it was 5-50W syntec and a zookie
filter, this time I've got some leftover oils I'm gonna use.

So I round up my leftover oils, and begin to pour it in! First a quart of
15-50W Mobil 1, then a leftover amount of 5-50W to get rid of the jug....and
then ( heres the kicker! ) an opened bottle of 10-40W cage oil.

Except....last fall, when swapping out the transfer case fluid on the Titan,
I apparently dumped my leftover ATF fluid into a Castrol 10-40 quart jug,
and without sniffing it or seeing it first, I begin to pour! Apon noticing
the color...I go banana's. Sure, synthetic ATF is a long chain hydrocarbon,
but it don't belong in the crankcase.

Great.

So here I go again, drain everything out back outta the bike, find some REAL
castrol 10-40W ( in a moment of panic during the next quart in, I could have
SWORN it was brake fluid the stuff was so clear ), pour it in and watch it
run out the bottom until the color isn't red anymore.

So when I'm finished wasting all this good motor oil, I round up what I've
got, which is 20-50W Castrol I was accumulating for the big zookies summer
oil change, and finally get the job done.

ATF in the motor...what a twit. Been running the bike since then though,
everything seems fine. I was worried about the clutch mostly, goo up the
plates, slip central, yada yada. Who knows, but if it was bad, I figured it
would happen to me.

"TroytheTroll" <f4_boy.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:HqmdnfHTEOP7fJzbnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@giganews.com...
> So I forgot to mention this earlier, and in the interest of full
> disclosure as to my lack of wrenchin abilities ( after seeing saddles
> post ), I figured I would tell my most recent boner story.
>
> So there I am last weekend, changing whatever oils are left in my
> vehicles, and I'm down to the 650. Last summer/fall it was 5-50W syntec
> and a zookie filter, this time I've got some leftover oils I'm gonna use.
>
> So I round up my leftover oils, and begin to pour it in! First a quart of
> 15-50W Mobil 1, then a leftover amount of 5-50W to get rid of the
> jug....and then ( heres the kicker! ) an opened bottle of 10-40W cage oil.
>
> Except....last fall, when swapping out the transfer case fluid on the
> Titan, I apparently dumped my leftover ATF fluid into a Castrol 10-40
> quart jug, and without sniffing it or seeing it first, I begin to pour!
> Apon noticing the color...I go banana's. Sure, synthetic ATF is a long
> chain hydrocarbon, but it don't belong in the crankcase.
>
> Great.
>
> So here I go again, drain everything out back outta the bike, find some
> REAL castrol 10-40W ( in a moment of panic during the next quart in, I
> could have SWORN it was brake fluid the stuff was so clear ), pour it in
> and watch it run out the bottom until the color isn't red anymore.
>
> So when I'm finished wasting all this good motor oil, I round up what I've
> got, which is 20-50W Castrol I was accumulating for the big zookies summer
> oil change, and finally get the job done.
>
> ATF in the motor...what a twit. Been running the bike since then though,
> everything seems fine. I was worried about the clutch mostly, goo up the
> plates, slip central, yada yada. Who knows, but if it was bad, I figured
> it would happen to me.
>
>


Any weird smell in the exhaust?
I think you'll prolly be ok since the motor wasn't running, and you flushed
it out pretty quick.
Is ATF fluid as corrosive as brake fluid?


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Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
71 Kawi H1
05 Infant

--
Andrew
00 Daytona
00 Speed Triple
71 Kawi H1
05 Infant