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Originally Posted by FRS Dad
The answer was in response to someone who had accidentally filled his crankcase with ATF. The tech was illustrating that it was not uncommon to intentionally mix ATF and oil, and as a result his opinion was that running straight ATF for a short period was not harmful. I posted it to give the OP some reassurance that it's possible all is not lost.
He may not be correct,
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Dude, I found your source. He put 1 quart of ATF into the engine and was told people used to use that to degunk.
That's a big difference from running straight ATF as a total substitute for the proper oil. We need a expert tribologist, but I bet he would say it's entirely conceivable the engine would suffer premature wear from this accident. It's not like it got driven 30 miles with
10w30 instead of 0w20, transmission fluid is far from meeting the manufacturer specified lubrication.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...3174553AAZEE38