Made stupid mistake! What would my solution be to do now?

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satman858

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Hi everyone,

Feel free to call me stupid because I know better. But when I took out my Gravely Promaster 44Z for the season I did a Engine oil and filter change. I mistakenly started put the SAEHD30 motor oil in to the Hydraulic intake and not the oil intake before I realized what a stupid mistake I was making. I only put about 4 oz but any oil that thick should not be good. My Hydraulic takes 20w/50w synthetic motor oil, but the SAE30HD is a much thicker oil. I know from reading the manual that not all of the fluid comes completely out of the system when bleeding, but I ordered a New Hydraulic oil filter and plan on bleeding the system and refilling it with the 20w/50w synthetic motor oil, but am not sure if that is the answer as to what all I need to do.

Any and all help is deeply appreciated.
 

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Top it off with the proper fluid. Drink a few cold ones. Not a big deal.

If you can't sleep, dump it out and pour in fresh.

You need to be worrying about the cooling fins and engine block being clean. This is a yearly to-do in yours and everyone else's engine manuals. I know, what cooling fins.......
 
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I would have thought that I could get some experience Moderators or Lawnmower mechanics to reply back to my post in this forum, and give suggestions to me. I guess I was wrong.
 

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I would have thought that I could get some experience Moderators or Lawnmower mechanics to reply back to my post in this forum, and give suggestions to me. I guess I was wrong.
Would you like me to fly to your house and fix it for free? Tough crowd.....
 

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I would have thought that I could get some experience Moderators or Lawnmower mechanics to reply back to my post in this forum, and give suggestions to me. I guess I was wrong.
Well the techs who read the reply to your post would have realised that was the correct answer , needed no embelichment and moved on to the nex problem.
Do you need 50,000 to tell you the same thing
Moderators moderate , they remove spam, shut down threads that hvae gotten out of control and warn people about being abusive.
They do not necessarily answer questions
20W50 is actually thicker at running temperature than strait 30
So now you have 20.05W 49.05 oil in your hydro
If it really urks you then rip them out drain the hydro oil and replace it.
And if you are parrinoid do it after each of your next 3 mows
Then go into the bathroom remove all your cloths and whip yourself till you bleed .
 

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Well the techs who read the reply to your post would have realised that was the correct answer , needed no embelichment and moved on to the nex problem.
Do you need 50,000 to tell you the same thing
Moderators moderate , they remove spam, shut down threads that hvae gotten out of control and warn people about being abusive.
They do not necessarily answer questions
20W50 is actually thicker at running temperature than strait 30
So now you have 20.05W 49.05 oil in your hydro
If it really urks you then rip them out drain the hydro oil and replace it.
And if you are parrinoid do it after each of your next 3 mows
Then go into the bathroom remove all your cloths and whip yourself till you bleed .
 

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bertsmobile1,
You know nothing about oil. For you to say that 20W/50W is thicker than the thickest motor oil made in SAE30HD only serves to show you do not know what you talking about. Your last line shows everyone how much of a sick pervert you must be.
 

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Actually I probably KNOW more about engine oils than 75% of the forum members all added tgether
20W 50 is a 20 weight oil at room temperature which thins down to the equivalent of a strait 50 wt oil at operating temperature which is around 100C depending upon which set of standards you are using
Thus at room temperature the 30 is thicker and at operating temperature the 30 is thinner.

Now if you had a quality mower with an Eatons transmission which uses hydro oil your silly mistake would be a problem that requires one if not 2 or 3 oil changes as hydraulic oils & engine oils do not mix and may form an emulsion which is not good.
You gat a perfectly sound answer then came back demanding more
So you got more
As your seem to begging for some sort of punishment then the self inflicted punishment of some orders of monks to cleanse their souls would appear to be appropriate
Oh and engine oils go up to SAE 90.
Harley oil is SAE 75W 90 for the older bikes
BP still make ther monogrades 10 centipoise incriments from SAE 10 up to SAE 90 usually labled "Coarse XY" . They used to have a coarse 100 & coarse 120 but I have not seen that for 15 ish years
I use Coarse 50 & Coarse 90 it in some of my veteran total loss engines
Hence the supposedly humourous 20.05W 49.05 allowing for the dilution factor .

And I do not pretend to be holier than the Pope.
If I was a pervert then I would have suggested you make a video of you doing it .
 

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You made a mistake, but not one that cannot be remedied. Bert is right, your question was answered and there was no reason for any other techs to chime in. I’m surprised that some DIY guy has not sent you down a path which may have cost you big money and a lot of time. I don’t know what answers you were looking for, but the title of this thread tells us everything we need to know about you. You came here for free help and then when given you are not smart enough to understand the answers given, which was the second stupid mistake you made. If you don’t like the answer, don’t ask the question.
 

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Correct. Multiple viscosity oil are design to act as lighter oil at cold temps and like thicker oils are higher temps. All oils thin as they are heated. Multi viscosity just make the oil flow more freely at lower temps. A single grade just get thicker at lower temp and thinner at higher temp.

And I recently brought some SAE140 by mistake when I was needing SAE85-140 multi viscosity gear oil. I had to exchange it for the correct blend.
 
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