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Run water through engine?

Even my wife wouldnt do that

Kinda difficult to imagine someone *that* dumb, but it's certainly not impossible.

Had he added some emulsifier and surfactant, it may have lasted a little longer. (with the oil drain plug in) Actually, thinking a bit more about it, an engine can probably run on half-and-half (meaning half water and half oil).

Since I have an extra car now that I need to get rid of, I may just test theory.
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reply to fartness
That was just a guy trolling auto forums at the time. He was behind the guy "cleaning" his turbocharged engine with sand, that just happened to pop up around the exact same time and a couple other threads that were all too stupid to be true. They all had the same "Help, my car is now acting weird since I did X, Y and Z" format and

»www.audiforums.com/forum/off-top···g-80267/

+1 for lasting 6 years though...
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Taking the totality of issues and sources linked, another example of how the Internet has made us smarter and our lives better!

LOL.

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The one I linked, someone told him to do it in another thread. That's what made it seem real.

Sadly as time goes on there seems that there are people that stupid now a days. The movie Idiocracy seems to have some truth to it about the future.

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Those Ford guys seem pretty stupid to fall for that.

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I did something once somewhat similar to the OP that superficially seems incredibly stupid. However, in my case it was a case of daydreaming or inattentiveness to what I was doing as opposed to what I started out to do.

I was in college and had a junker car. No here I'm sure can relate to that combination. In addition to normal fluids, additives kept the piece of junk running as well as possible.

One day I was going to add some fuel additive. Carburetor or deposit or fuel line cleaner? Obviously goes into fuel tank when the tank is low on fuel. Then add gasoline.

So what do I do. In my daydream, perhaps of the beautiful woman of my life at the time, I popped the hood and dumped the additive into the oil supply.

Well gosh do you think my valves or lifters and so on now made a racket with the engine running?

We tried a variety of cleaner or treatments specifically designed to eliminate the problem and none of them worked.

Finally found something that fixed the problem though.

Want to guess what it was?

STP ?

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An oil change?

Naturally an oil change was the first thing tried. Then various valve and lifter cleaners and other oil additives to quiet them. They were really making a racket after the accidental pouring of gas additive into the oil supply.

Nothing worked until I spoke with a friend of mine that owned a gas station and had spent his whole life fixing cars.

Drain the oil and replace with transmission fluid. Drive the car normally around town for I think one full day, maybe less. Drain and replace with oil and problem solved. Engine purred. valves and lifters church quiet.

My dad use to use tranny fluid in engines. But he only used a quart before changing the oil letting the engine idle about a half hour and draining.