So I had a coolant leak not a major one, I was told by my mechanic that I could use stop leak. Well I thought I had put it into the radiator but while driving down the road my car stopped working I pulled off and popped my hood and that’s when I realized I put it into the transmission fluid! The cap…

I do want to clarify that the only thing visible before I scrubbed off was the dex- and part of the symbol

Have the transmission fluid flushed, and cross your fingers. Tester

I was definitely planning on doing that but first wanted to get some options on if that would even do anything or if this was definitely a fatal error

Are you sure that’s not the power steering cap? Is there a short dipstick attached to it?

@It_s_Me So there is a cover that is over the engine when I was shown where the radiator cap was the first and only time it was a few years ago and that cover was already off… so I didn’t realize that at the time and I added a picture of what that cap looks like … being dirty and just showing the s…

Here is the location of the power steering cap. [image]

There is but it definitely says transmission fluid… I had figured that I had to have done something wrong so I cleaned off the cap really well and that’s when I realized what I did [image]

And here is the proper power steering fluid. Dexron VI, just like it says on the cap in your picture. [image]

Right which just makes things even more confusing… but when it started acting up it was definitely transmission related kinda felt similar to a spark plug issue …

So is that cap for the PS or for the transmission?

Accidentally put coolant stop leak in transmission fluid

Maintenance/Repairs

NYBo April 7, 2021, 8:27pm 12

Here is the location of the power steering cap.

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Accidentally put coolant stop leak in transmission fluid

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