How many times should I change trans oil to get rid of 10W-30?

#1 07-07-2002, 03:57 PM

In case any of y'all read my post in the General SVX babble, I am a retard and filled my transmission with 10W-30 motor oil and drove around for 1200 miles. I have since drained it once, and filled it with real live transmission oil, and then I let the car idle for about 5 minutes while I put in into drive and reverse a couple of times while on the ramps, and then drained and filled with trans oil again. I figure I have not more than 2 and not less than 1 quart of motor oil mixed in with the trans fluid. Should I change it again? and again?...

Thanks for putting up with me

kuoh · #2 07-07-2002, 07:15 PM

I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question. Were you doing this in the dark? How come you didn't notice that the fluid wasn't red?

KuoH

#3 07-07-2002, 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by kuoh
I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question. Were you doing this in the dark? How come you didn't notice that the fluid wasn't red?

KuoH

Well, uh, I don't rightly know. I guess amber is close to red when you pour it? Maybe if a Subaru had a light under the hood...it's got all that insulation to help everything overheat, why not a light? grrr....

Seraph · #4 07-07-2002, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kuoh
I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question. Were you doing this in the dark? How come you didn't notice that the fluid wasn't red?

KuoH

Sometimes, even the most careful person will make a mistake. I have done some dumb mistakes before. I don't think you are helping that him by asking him a smartass question here. That's my job

Lwin

#5 07-07-2002, 08:37 PM

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Originally posted by Seraph

Sometimes, even the most careful person will make a mistake. I have done some dumb mistakes before. I don't think you are helping that him by asking him a smartass question here. That's my job

Lwin

It's alright, even if. But I'm a little worried since I'm about to take a 400-mile round trip to Nashville on Tuesday..

kuoh · #6 07-07-2002, 09:03 PM

Lol...yeah I've wondered that myself. Well I hope your tranny survives the accident. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on my tranny. It's starting to slip more and more, especially in this heat. :-(

KuoH

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Originally posted by gcookaustin
Maybe if a Subaru had a light under the hood...it's got all that insulation to help everything overheat, why not a light? grrr....

kuoh · #7 07-07-2002, 09:06 PM

Consider it my resume.

KuoH

Quote:

Originally posted by Seraph
I don't think you are helping that him by asking him a smartass question here. That's my job

vkykam · #8 07-07-2002, 11:11 PM

I think you should just take it to a shop with a tranny flush and be done with it.

A flush is not that expensive anyways.

Just make sure they put in the right stuff.

VK

Quote:

Originally posted by gcookaustin
In case any of y'all read my post in the General SVX babble, I am a retard and filled my transmission with 10W-30 motor oil and drove around for 1200 miles. I have since drained it once, and filled it with real live transmission oil, and then I let the car idle for about 5 minutes while I put in into drive and reverse a couple of times while on the ramps, and then drained and filled with trans oil again. I figure I have not more than 2 and not less than 1 quart of motor oil mixed in with the trans fluid. Should I change it again? and again?...

Thanks for putting up with me

#9 07-08-2002, 08:59 PM

.... Not to make fun of you or anything, but LMFAOROTF!!!!
How? And why??
I'd say you're safe where you are right now. If you're not satisfied, drain a little bit of the tranny fluid, and check how clean it is. (Usually red, so you shouldnt see any bits of brown in it)
Make sure you CHANGE the tranny oil filter ASAP. It'll definitely help.
-Ross

#10 07-08-2002, 09:06 PM

Well, tonight I changed the motor oil (4500 miles) and transmission oil (200 miles) again. Made sure several times that I was putting Motor Oil into the engine and transmission oil into the transmission. Would you believe that with all those bottles out there I almost put transmission fluid into the engine? Fortunately I triple checked each bottle before I put it in. Also I spilled oil all over the driveway again, suprise suprise. But at least now I have only maybe a half quart of motor oil in the tranny. Fortunately I decided to do my transmission filter replacement AFTER I dumped the 6-7 quarts of motor in there, so not much was mixed with the new filter. I put six quarts of motor oil in and six quarts of transmission fluid in; is that about right?

Seraph · #11 07-08-2002, 09:45 PM

Just to complicate things... you do know that we use ATF for powersteering too right?

Lwin

#12 07-08-2002, 10:06 PM

Oh, you mean...you know, that reminds me, I probably put motor oil in there too, to fill it up...the power steering.

...well, I don't really freakin' care anymore.

Just like my quote says, so far so good.