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Originally posted by Curving_Edge
My friend was trying to change his oil, but instead of draining his oil and replacing it, he drained his auto tranny fluid and put more oil into the car.
The joy of replacing a blown tranny.....
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I've seen some cars where the combination of the trans pan location, and the trans pan being equipped with a drain pan make that a easy, yet unfortunate mistake to make.
I don't have any one incident in particular that sticks out, I have put the old part back in before once or twice, and every now and then I'll finish putting something back together only to realize I forget to put something back early in the process.
The best one was when I was an apprentice, it was my second day on the job. The guy I was working with was doing an oil change on a brand new Blazer with 2800 miles on it. Ten minutes later the customer called back to inform us that he had forgot to put oil back in the engine. We drove over to where the customer was, three miles away and filled it up with oil. The engine actually made it 8000 more miles before it developed a rod knock.