RE: Bored surfing yields weird advice...comments?

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

On the Acura Legend enthusiasts' web page I found an advice that adding
ATF to the oil just before oil change helps to quiet down hydraulic
tappets (looks like Legends have this problem, too).

Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alex Kowalski [SMTP:kpeters@wppost.depaul.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, September 19, 1997 1:18 AM
> To:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject:	Bored surfing yields weird advice...comments?
> 
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> Does anyone have any comments on this before I get my garden hose?
> ;-)  Seriously is there a kernel of good advice here? In one of the
> archives
> there was a discussion of adding 1 quart of ATF to fresh oil and
> letting
> the engine run for awhile to de-crud it internally, then draining and
> replacing with fresh oil and filter.  That sounded reasonable.  But
> ATF into
> the intake?
> 
> Best Wishes,
> 
> Alex
> '86 5KCSTQ
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