STP oil treatment (Stay Together Please) is still out there !!

When I was a teenager, my dad decided that the leaking power steering pump in our ‘74 Impala wagon was too much of a pain to to replace so he drained it and refilled it with STP instead. I guess he couldn’t be bothered since I was the only one using it to go back and forth to high school for the Winter. I used to have to warm it up for 20 minutes every morning just so I could turn the steering wheel. What a PIA. That stuff is like glue when it’s cold.

I bought my own replacement car in the Spring and let him deal with the Impala. I think he sold the car and never replaced the pump.

He never was much of a mechanic.