Water in oil

the maoster:
If the truck belonged to me I’d hazard a guess at the damage being black eyes, nose bleed and swollen lips at the very least.

Obviously as long as he didn’t look a bit handier than you. Nothing worse than telling someone what to do when your head spinning and your on the floor !! :slight_smile:

alterego:
A driver at work accidentally put screenwash in the oil filler. Another driver fired it up an moved it any idea of yhe damage gonna be coursed…?

Probably no damage at all. Hard to say withuot knowing how much he put in, and of course how much oil was in it. I’d be confident an oil change will put things right. Assuming he didn’t fill it to the brim !!

fdm:
I blame the manufacturer, why can’t they clearly label the fillers, or even use colour coded filler caps…

Oh, hang on…

They suppley a Manual with the Vehicle.
Just read it :slight_smile:

Mike-C:

the maoster:
If the truck belonged to me I’d hazard a guess at the damage being black eyes, nose bleed and swollen lips at the very least.

Obviously as long as he didn’t look a bit handier than you. Nothing worse than telling someone what to do when your head spinning and your on the floor !! :slight_smile:

That’s a given Mike. I didn’t get to be my age and manage to keep my good looks and unbroken nose without knowing exactly which fights to pick! :smiley:

As long as the oil is dropped out pretty quick it won’t do any harm, but leaving it in for any length of time will not do it any good at all.

Anti freeze and screenwash are quite similar and anti freeze will strip the zinc off the big ends and mains over time, the metal parts in the engine are all layered, zinc is the protection, then comes lead, then copper and then they usually go bang, so I ain’t got a clue what comes next :laughing:

Moose:
I know it’s not the same but I often wonder what’s going on when you see a vehicle with a puncture on the motorway hard shoulder, the driver usually has the spare wheel out but stands there on a mobile phone waiting for someone else to come and change it!

Tin hat on here, but I wouldn’t change a wheel on the hard shoulder - especially not in my car. Not with all the pro drivers on & off the rumble strip. You’ll find me on the verge waiting for the bloke with the flashing lights getting the danger pay.

A lot of firms wouldn’t let you do it anyway & who can blame them, whilst drivers continue to put water in oil fillers and Adblue in washer bottles. Would you trust them to properly fit a wheel? :open_mouth:

alterego:
A driver at work accidentally put screenwash in the oil filler. Another driver fired it up an moved it any idea of yhe damage gonna be coursed…?

Easily done. sympathies
the water/emulsion might block the oil filter
might score the pump due to inadequate lubrication
On balance, I don’t think it will do anything and will evaporate away over time

the maoster:
If the truck belonged to me I’d hazard a guess at the damage being black eyes, nose bleed and swollen lips at the very least. The chimp summed it up perfectly; “cabbage”.

What happens if hes bigger than you :smiley: say thankyou :unamused:

Immigrant:

fdm:
I blame the manufacturer, why can’t they clearly label the fillers, or even use colour coded filler caps…

Oh, hang on…

They suppley a Manual with the Vehicle.
Just read it :slight_smile:

Whoooshh…

sweeper1gg:

the maoster:
If the truck belonged to me I’d hazard a guess at the damage being black eyes, nose bleed and swollen lips at the very least. The chimp summed it up perfectly; “cabbage”.

What happens if hes bigger than you :smiley: say thankyou :unamused:

I’d go get my Dad! :smiley:

the maoster:

sweeper1gg:

the maoster:
If the truck belonged to me I’d hazard a guess at the damage being black eyes, nose bleed and swollen lips at the very least. The chimp summed it up perfectly; “cabbage”.

What happens if hes bigger than you :smiley: say thankyou :unamused:

I’d go get my Dad! :smiley:

LOL my Dad once told me when i used to thing i was a bit handy that you will always meet someone bigger or better and that they dont have to be bigger to be better :wink: He was as usual 100% correct but then again experience is something you can find but not teach and we all are / were young and full of it once

I know of a mechanic who did something similar filling the sump with engine coolant, to a recon engine he’d just fitted.
Rather dumb, only realising his mistake because it was taking so long to fill the cooling system. In fairness though apparantly the coolant filler and oil fill were next to each other on the truck.
No harm done as the engine wasn’t started.

I seem to remember a Leyland /Daf type thing (you might call it a CF today) where the engine dipstick was at the front at one side with the screenwash filler right next to it. :confused:
The oil filler was at the opposite side :laughing: Just asking for it really.