Im a Fuc#ing Thickhead!!

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I started my new 408 on the engine test stand. Sounds Sweet!!. Now heres the dumb part
My brother and I built the 727 3 months ago and for some reason I thought I had filled it with tranny fluid back then . Well you idiot you didnt, and I started the engine idled it up checked the timing etc without thinking about the auto.

Started to make a noise from trans and turned it off straight away. Pulled the plug and it was bone dry. It only had the oil I had put in the convertor before installing that.

You cant believe the self loathing I am feeling right now.
 
AHAHAHAHAHA,
Well then just to take the edge off,
I had a customer come in to a shop I was in charge of, 427 Chevy in a '56 pickup,
Huge intake oil leak, mani off, repair, install, restart--- customer present---
No oil press !!!
Doh !!! forgot to remove the red rag from the valley, got wound up in the dist drive---

I am laughing at You because I CAN walk on water...

Soldier on Sir. Your only an Idiot if You make the same mistake twice !!!

P.s,
Anyone who cannot admit to these kind of mistakes is either a charlatan or arrogant.
 
Well that sucks. you better inspect the pump, and pull the pan, at the very least.
 
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It's ok, 3 months ago I did a break job on my truck. I went to go throw all the old parts in the scrap bin and I was noticing how great one set of my old shoes looked. I had a hunch so I went and pulled both wheels and drums and sure enough on one side I pulled the old shoes off and then some how got confused and put them right back on doh!:violent1:
 
Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. 45 years of changing oil and I forgot those magical 5 quarts. Ended up spinning a cam bearing and shutting off oil to the front bank of our v6 in the family mini van. Don't beat yourself up. Take it back apart and inspect for damage. Easier now than later. tmm
 
Sorry to hear about that. I was changing the plugs and wires in a friends Dakota. Noticed two of the plugs I was about to throw away looked suspiciously new. Turns out I had put two old spark plugs back in the engine, anti-seize on the threads and everything lol
 
Well I , broke my 440 in on a stand using a 727 that only had fluid in the converter on purpose. Its in the car and running perfect right now
 
I figure we have ALL done bonehead things, the difference is in WHo admits to it, AND who is still alive to tell it!!????? my list of stupid stuff is SOooo long!
 
I went the opposite way
I pulled the engine and tranny "figuring" all the ATF would drain out

3 months later I put it all back and put 2 gallons of ATF in there
Then it started to leak out the overflow hole :banghead:
 
I was adjusting the valves on our car and got everything buttoned up started the car and heard this weird fast clicking noise, turns out I left the ratchet on the crank bolt and the sockit was just spinning away at 1000 rpm, good thing the wrench was going the right direction
 
I dismantled my 144 when I was 16. All the parts neatly arranged in a shed. My brother put 4 small pigs in the shed. Parts everywhere. I managed to find and clean all of them, or so I thought. Oil pump drive shaft must have been lost in the muck. Anyway, with no manual I put it all together and fired it up. Ya live...and ya learn. My next effort was a 396, it screamed.
 
a bigblock won't run without a fuel pump rod. what a frick'n headache.
 
We all make mistakes , hope the damage is minimal , if any .
 
Every single time I put a new trans in a car I always (StandardOperatingProcedure) put the rear end up on jack stands and run the trans through every gear numerous times as I verify the trans fluid level. I never run a new trans on the ground until I've been through every gear on jack stands with the trans completely full of fluid. If you do it this way you'll never ruin a new trans....please don't ask me how I learned this lesson!!!!

Treblig
 
If you only filled the converter,, I don't think there'd be enuff fluid to even drive the pump, nevermind anything else,,

I'd fill it and drive it.. if damage has been done,, it's not likely to get worse with lubrication,, if,, after a few miles,, the fluid stinks,, see what's in the pan... jmo .. being so close to completion..

cheers
 
I imagine the pump bushing could be damaged, and maybe the pump too. Without sufficient fluid to couple the turbine, it's not likely to have damaged anything else. It kinda depends what-with or how you prelubed the pump and bushing. Since I do all my own work, I'd fill 'er up and drive it. You'll know soon enough.

I make mistakes too. I think I coulda stayed single a lil longer.
Hard to be sure tho, as we're comin' up on 39 years........
And my second granbaby showed up two days ago...........
Naw, Ima just funnin'.

Mechanically speaking you can't be wrenching for 47 years and not make some mistakes.I know I'm not arrogant, but I had to look up charlatan. Nope I ain't one of those either.
I made a mistake in 1969. I "rebuilt" the 283 in my 57 BelAire. Keep in mind I was just barely 16. Well that sob would not fire up. So, since that PG had a rear pump in it, a friend offered to help me tow-start it. Actually I roped him into it. So we towed that sucker a good 5 miles., and no way would it start . That motor was spinning like a whirling dervish, but nada. So we turned it around and headed for home. After a bit I started yanking on the shifter( cuz well I was 16 and really frustrated) this way and that, and low and behold the car fired up,jumped ahead, and nearly ran the tow vehicle over. Well we pulled over again, and danged if that 283 wasn't purring like a kitten.
So I told my puller-guy to follow me home. I jumped back into the 57, yanked the stick into low, and promptly backed her up!
What? Since when is low not at the bottom of the quadrant? When it's a two-speed 57 BelAire. Then it's reverse...... Oh boy. I just towed that poor 57, 6 or 7 miles with the engine spinning backwards.
Now that's how I remember the story.
I probably made a few more mistakes since then....But my memory ain't so good just now. Maybe somthin' will come to me inabit.
So maybe you could add selectively bad memory to the charlatan/arrogant list. lol.
You know Ima a funnin again,right?
OK, let me te........I got 47 years of 'em...But no I never done that no oil in the tranny trick...OP...DA...lol
 
inertia said:
If you only filled the converter,, I don't think there'd be enuff fluid to even drive the pump, nevermind anything else,,

I'd fill it and drive it.. if damage has been done,, it's not likely to get worse with lubrication,, if,, after a few miles,, the fluid stinks,, see what's in the pan... jmo .. being so close to completion..

cheers
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The pump is directly driven by the converter so the pump runs any time the engine does (fluid or not)

They grease the hell out of the bearings in converters when they assemble them, so as Lance said it's may be just fine.
(BUT) If you heard noises it probably trashed the pump because that is all that would be turning with little to no fluid in it.

The upside is that with no fluid in it, it probably didn't circulate pump metal through the rest of the trans and the cooler lines.

(Pan check)
 
I would fill it and try it, can't damage it anymore, if it is damaged.

Only loosing a few quarts of fluid if it is.
 
I found a new main bearing halve on the ground under my car after I buttoned up the bottom end. That explained the low oil pressure! I pre-lubed the motor with a drill and failed to install the oil pressure sender, it was an oil geyser that barely missed my face.
 
Years ago i was converting my old 69 charger to stick shift. Got it all together, what a ***** getting one of those cast iron A833s up in there. Get it all hooked up, put trans in neutral, turn the key, bzzzzzzzzzz the starter was freewheeling and not hitting any teeth. My pop is standing there going whats up. I just shook my head.

**** i instantly knew. I had a 11" iron bellhousing, with a 10.5" flywheel. Had to take all that **** back apart.
 
Bad Sport said:
I would fill it and try it, can't damage it anymore, if it is damaged.

Only loosing a few quarts of fluid if it is.
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Except it could fill the trans and cooler lines with pump metal.
That's all.#-o:D

Then it would have to be completely disassembled, cleaned out and reassembled AND need a pump.
Maybe even with a new converter if no one felt competent to flush it successfully.

Not trying to be wet blanket here. :D
 
Like I always say when I screw up:
"What fun is being stupid if you don't get to show it off once in a while!"
 
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