adding brake fluid to your oil for valve seals?

[BILT4ME]

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[shocktower]

Well. A long, long, time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, rubber products were made from tree juice, not crude oil like here and now. So MAYBE brake fluid made it swell up. Back then. Back there?

But brake seals back then where leather too

 

[Rifleman]

Just a word of advice, if the tech that told you to dump brake fluid into your motor oil happens to own, or operate a repair shop, I'd steer WAY CLEAR of his shop.

 

[landcruiser3DP]

Well. A long, long, time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, rubber products were made from tree juice, not crude oil like here and now. So MAYBE brake fluid made it swell up. Back then. Back there?

thanks man.
yeah. wanted to run it up the flagpole and see if it got shot full of holes. it did seem to make /some/ sense to me. but CDC just had to put out an alert because people are drinking bleach these days to cure cancer, so there’s that too.
got it! guy was a toyota tech at the toyota dealer and now works at the local LC shop. which is a lot of information so if he sees this at least he knows it’s snake oil advice now.

 

[landcruiser3DP]

Just a word of advice, if the tech that told you to dump brake fluid into your motor oil happens to own, or operate a repair shop, I'd steer WAY CLEAR of his shop.

thanks.
he doesn’t but.
anyway, getting someone to work on my LC is feeling more and more like getting someone to work on my airhead.
which i don’t look for any more...

 

[shocktower]

thanks man.
yeah. wanted to run it up the flagpole and see if it got shot full of holes. it did seem to make /some/ sense to me. but CDC just had to put out an alert because people are drinking bleach these days to cure cancer, so there’s that too.
got it! guy was a toyota tech at the toyota dealer and now works at the local LC shop. which is a lot of information so if he sees this at least he knows it’s snake oil advice now.

That sounds like a mechanic from Tijuana

 

[maxamillion2345]

3qts of 20w50 per 1000 miles? Yikes, no “seal conditioner”/stop leak will help. Definitely no on the brake fluid in the oil. Also, that is a lot of oil to be burning. Gonna carbon the hell out of everything.

 

[LINUS]

Right now you’re just burning oil, but enough glycol & I bet at some point your bottom end will stage a revolution. Like start making a nice little rod knocking sound.

I had heard of using a cup of mineral spirits in the gas tank with a quart of toluene (essentially 116 octane) - to clean fuel injectors & plump seals a **little**, but you’re burning a real amount.

Do the valve seals, then you’ll see you can run even the “recommended” 5-30 oil & not see noticeable loss / 3K oil changes. (But where you live don’t run 5-30)

 

[leonard_nemoy]

I have heard of adding brake fluid or atf to the oil right before an oil change to help clean out sludge, but never for conditioning seals. I personally would never add anything besides oil

 

[shocktower]

Right now you’re just burning oil, but enough glycol & I bet at some point your bottom end will stage a revolution. Like start making a nice little rod knocking sound.

I had heard of using a cup of mineral spirits in the gas tank with a quart of toluene (essentially 116 octane) - to clean fuel injectors & plump seals a **little**, but you’re burning a real amount.

Do the valve seals, then you’ll see you can run even the “recommended” 5-30 oil & not see noticeable loss / 3K oil changes. (But where you live don’t run 5-30)

I have put ATF in a fuel filter to start my rig

 

[Rifleman]

I have put ATF in a fuel filter to start my rig

You know what you can actuality run ATF as a fuel in a pinch, in my old 5 ton diesel M925 military 6X6 has been known to not only run ATF as a fuel, but motor oil too.

 

[Cruzerman]

Drain out all your oil and replace with brake fluid. It will solve everything.

 

[Jgrauman]

Just FYI. I've heard of and have used brake fluid in power steering to condition orings. A cap full and a few weeks and the leak was gone. I watched a video comparing ATF, brake fluid, and alcohol with wintergreen to see which one actually restored rubber. Over a few weeks the brake fluid did the best at restoring a piece of hardened rubber