Anyone know what the outcome of pouring transmission fluid into the gas tank? My boyfriends truck got egged and had what appears to be transmission fluid poured into his gas tank. He opened his gas cap and its all red now. His truck is shot and now he has to buy a new vehicle. Can anyone tell me what the gasoline may look like. We have a sample. Any help would be good. The police are not doing anything about it.
The truck was starting and idling hard, the whole entire engine shakes and it sounds like it's misfiring. He hooked it up to a diagnostic machine, nothing is reading. Now he can't even start it. He thinks that 2 of the 4 cylinders are busted. He also thinks that something may have gotten in the header. He had a mechanic look at it, he told him that it would about $2000. They would have to start at the tank and follow the system to the front and figure out what got in it.
2007-08-08 04:41:30 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Tward, If indeed automatic transmission fluid was poured into your friends gas tank no damage was done. Drop the tank and rinse it out with mineral spirits, naphtha, carburetor cleaner or acetone. Remove the spark plugs and spin the motor several 15 second spins.
Re-install the gas tank and add a can of 3-M Complete Fuel System Cleaner (NAPA & Car Quest has this product). Un- hook the fuel line from the carburetor. Squirt gasoline in the fuel bowls of the carb. Place a catch can or plastic bottle at the end of the fuel line where it comes out of the fuel pump. Start the car and catch the contaminated gasoline that still is in the fuel lines. You'll need to add more fresh gasoline in the Holley fuel leval sight holes as the engine runs to be sure the complete gas line runs clear of the crap inside. It'll be red colored if it was AT fluid. Re-attach the fuel line to the carb. Put a fresh set of spark plugs in the motor and away you go.
I hope the crap did not hydraulic any of the rods or pistons. If by some lucky chance he has comprehensive coverage on his car it will pay for any repair work. You also did the right thing by reporting it to the police because that's the first thing the insurance company will ask before they'll give the go-ahead for repairs.
Good luck to both of you. This was a low life nasty trick and I know how bad he must feel.
2007-08-08 05:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by Country Boy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fuel normally has a yellow tint to it like a light bear the best thing to do is disconnect the high pressure line before the filter and cycle the key to get the pump on and drain out the tank then I would fill up the tank with a fuel system cleaner and change the fuel filter if you already ran the truck with the contaminated fuel and it died out you may need to have the cylinder cleaned out and the plugs changed good luck
2007-08-08 12:03:17 · answer #2 · answered by ff2307 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah- after a it starts back first it best to turn it right off and have it looked at, i would drop the tank and empty it start there but it sounds like it junk not- if you want to know what it looks like pour some trans fuild into a cup of gas- by the way gas in sprayed threw injecter ontop of the pistions to create combustion the transfuild will not combust or burn fast enough or compress witch would make it drop clinders, maybe the transfuild just stopped up the injecters because it's to thick,
2007-08-08 12:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is the gasoline gelled ?
Is it red from tranny fluid ?
Need to drop fuel tank, clean out with pressure washer, replace in-tank fuel pump, disconnect fuel line from pressure fuel filter, blow-out with no more than 75 lbs. of air.
Replace engine, hope this helps, good luck.
2007-08-08 11:51:09 · answer #4 · answered by LindaAnn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Empty the tank fill with gas, pull gas line off at engine turn engine over until gas comes out of line. reconnect to engine and give it a try.
2007-08-08 11:49:44 · answer #5 · answered by James B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a little bit of transmission fluid in the gas will clean the valves, my dad used to do it all the time, I dont know what a lot would do.
2007-08-08 11:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by Willy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alls you have to do is flush the system its not going to Herta the moter unless you over heat it and thin its rear drain the tank and the moter oil and all that put new in now if it was suger that's a hole diffrent ball game you can e me @ muddpuppey @yahoo.c o m
2007-08-08 11:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by muddpuppey 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No worries, can be easily repairedby draining the whole tank.. It shouldn't cost that much i think.
2007-08-08 11:51:49 · answer #8 · answered by spike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
let it idle for a while
2007-08-08 11:50:04 · answer #9 · answered by elias f 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋