First off, I am used to Toyotas and Fords since I owned those for the majority of my life, so please excuse me if this question is dumb. My son recently got a used Dodge Ram 1500 ,2003. He accidently put coolant in his wiper fluid tank and he is worried that he really messed it up.

Do you guys think I could syphen the coolant out? How harmful would it be if I swallowed it and should I see a doctor? My wife says I shouldn't do it, but she doesn't know anything about cars Or is it not that big of a deal?

Thanks guys, I think this is a great forum

 

Well I think you would go blind before it killed ya, but a drop or two won't do anything, now a whole mouth full and you can bet your *** i would have my finger down my throat. The stuff is is poison after all.

 

Go to home depot and buy the suction tool that plumbers use to get water out of toilets, sinks ect. and pump it into a bottle. It should be cheap and has a long tube to stick down in there.

 

You could just pull the wiper fluid container out and pour the fluid in a container to be recycled, then rinse it and refill w/ washer fluid.

 

They make a pump that hooks up to a hand drill and you screw a couple of hoses on each side (washer hoses work well). I've purchased a couple of them over the years and I think the most I ever paid for one was $6.95. They last forever, but every time I lend one out, I never seem to get it back.

Home Depot, Ace, Lowes, Sears all carry it. I bought one in a Harbor Freight for $3 once.

Get you one for this, you don't want to swallow coolant it's about as toxic as a liquid can be. Besides, you'll end up using the drill pump pretty often.



Quick little sucker too. When I got married and we bought a house, I emptied our king size water bed out with one in about 20 minutes...

 

This thread is GREAT.

 

You're lucky. My wife did the opposite and put washer flluid into her radiator overflow tank.

 

Reach down and pull the hose from the bottom of the tank? Then flush out and then re connect the hose. Done that before.. LOL

 

Or just stick a hose in the tank and run it for 20 Min.

 

just overfill the resevoir with water letting the coolant mix spill out.