The sulfur compounds act as a lubricant. That's why the ultra low sulfur diesel had to have lubricity additives in order to work in the fuel pumps (around 2006).
When sour crude burns I believe it makes CS2 which is used to remove grease and wax as an industrial solvent, hence why the sour crude made the engine so clean
If you taught science class when I was in grade school I wouldn't have had to spend so much time later in life learning what I wanted to know. You do a great job with all these projects 👍
Maybe the good lubrication of the crude oil would make it suitable to run in a 2-stroke engine without having to add any oil? Would be a fun test as well, see if it survives.
The thing about crude oil is that it literally has everything in it required to run your engine either as a fuel or lubricant... but it’s also full of stuff that’s detrimental or inhibits easy and reliable operation. Take your lubricity test. Yes in a short term high load application it performed better than motor oil. But the lighter fractions will act like solvents to prevent a film of oil staying on the internals when the engine is shut off and also possibly (quite likely) catch fire due to its extremely low flashpoint. Similarly for a fuel.. it does have the low flashpoint required for gasoline engines, but it’s taking a lot of heavier fractions along for the ride of which some will burn as they reach their flashpoint, but many won’t. This can lead to problems with metering and filtration (as you experienced) deposits and terrible emissions as well as detonation in higher compression engines (I would imagine a lawnmower engine is a lot like an old flathead where it was such low compression it could run on petroleum OR kerosene). Of course a Diesel engine would probably run better on this provided it wasn’t common rail direct injection as the crude would quickly clog injectors and wear out the pump. Perhaps the best use would be in an old jet engine with vaporizer tubes rather than injectors. Crude oil was used in Japanese warships as an emergency measure in WWII due to diminishing oil and refining capacity. It resulted in much fouling of the exhaust flues and water tube boilers as well as it was an extreme fire hazard due to the low flashpoint (bunker fuel is typically a very heavy crude fraction both for its energy content as well as its low volatility).
Haha there still is. I run my old vw on a crapload of other oils. People give me unused cases of oil so I throw it in the tank with about 5-6 other things like cetane booster and mmo and whatnot. When it’s up around a 25-30% concentration it runs pretty nice.
I worked in the industry and put raw condensate in my truck. It knocked like crazy. I added octane boost and premium every time it went down a quarter tank. After 2 times it stopped knocking.
Huh, never would have guessed that crude oil would run in an engine. I always imagined crude oil more like used motor oil. Thick, dirty, and not producing flammable fumes.
mharris1270 - "I wouldn't pay $25 a gallon for new oil to burn in your truck's gas tank" Hence why I use WASTE Motor Oil, which most mechanic workshops will happily store and give to you for FREE, because it saves them paying to have the waste oil removed and transported. But every time that I do an oil change, I simply throw that oil into my 1000L JetA1 storage container and allow sufficient time for it to settle to allow microscopic metal fragments and gel fragments to drop to the bottom.
My image of crude oil is heated roof tar OR really, really old and thick differential oil. Mind you, I have never seen the real article with my own eyes or felt it with my hands. However, I bet if you heat it hot enough you could make ANY ICE run on it(talking from experience with oil fueled ranges, heaters and pottery ovens).
Working in the oil industry, this thought has crossed my mind. Where I work (southern Australia) the crude oil is so light it's hard to tell it from dirty water. Great video, as always. You've satisfied my curiosity so many times and saved me hours of experimenting just "so I know". So thankful that you share your work and knowledge with others.
Given the low gravity of this, I was expecting it to work. What is more surprising is that the light-sweet crude was harder to flow than the sour stuff. As I understand it, this particular source of crude is especially light and loaded with stuff even lighter than gasoline. In fact, it's quite possible that a lot of gasses escaped this crude before it could even be put in the bottles and shipped. I was wondering where he got crude oil. That stuff is NASTY.
many years ago while working for a builder, i ran out of gas miles from a gas station. looking through my van for something flammable, i found a can of wood preserver, it got me home with the engine protesting loudly all the way.
I also looked around found my wife,and on that trip home there was also alot of protesting from the "engine".i also got home,warm and dry and all ready to sleep on the sofa!
I have to say, I was really impressed also, not just the film strength but how clean the sour crude burned. I didn’t expect that. I wonder how the efficiency test would do.. being that it’s also lubricating pretty well
You must use a hot water bath to heat up flammable liquids, you are not supposed to use straight heating or open flames. Dipping the full plastic reservoir into a pot with hot water for 10 mins would have done the trick!
I bought a Murray mower with Briggs & Stratton engine in March 2003. It finally failed to start in March of 2019. Had 2 small kids and no time so I took it to local shop. They charged me $50 bucks and told me it was not salvageable as it had no compression and was beyond repair. Put it on the curb. Picked up immediately. An hour later a random guy brings it back to me and asks for $25 for the repair he has just made. (Dirty carb). I paid him smiling and still use that same mower 3 years later. I LOVE those old Briggs & Strattons.
I live in Texas and it's a common thing to hear about some guy who works on an oil rig running his diesel truck on crude. Never actually seen it, but my dad worked in the oil fields for 20 years and said people really did it a lot.
Yup, bunker crude is (or maybe was, knowing the enviro-whackos) a commonly used fuel for ships-at-sea. So snotty it has to be heated to make it go through the injection system, and so smoky you'll get fined for burning it in a lot of ports, but very cheap.
GreatNorthernDad The envirowackos you mention should definitely worry about ships more than cars. One cargo ship emits more pollution in one day than 50,000,000 cars in that same day (yes, 50 million). And there an estimated 90,000 ships on the seas.
David Roberts Don't know about that. A toothless figurehead who can't really do anything of substance that affects anyone outside of the US of A without many layers of approval of congress and other agency bureaucracy VS. world wide misguided and misinformed individual, first-world, privileged, poke-my-nose-into-my-neighbours'-business-fascists tut-tutting over small-picture, simplified problems rather than the things of real consequence. People generally have zero clues about things they can't see in front of their morning cereal bowl. I own 4 cars, 4 motorbikes & multitude other engine powered tools n toys. But I also know container ship & aircraft emissions are a real issue no one wants to admit to lest it means they can't buy their iphone or nikes.
Happy Monday and thank you! By the way, the Project Farm Channel will have a 30-minute episode on the Velocity Channel this coming Friday at 9:30 PM EST (Velocity Dispatch, Season 1, Episode 6).
"How do you tell what type of fuel it is?" "What are you, stupid? You taste it; unleaded tastes a little tangy, supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good" -Ricky
Pretty darn fascinating! BTW, the turbine engines in the first few pumping stations on the Alaska pipeline use crude oil because it's too difficult to haul refined fuel that far north. The one thing they do to the crude first is push it thru filters to get out as much dirt and sand as they can.
When using you lubricity tester I think you should let it run for 10 or 15 seconds with no load before adding weight... would be interested to see if the oils can build a a film strength before adding load
Put it this way when you start your car do you instantly rev it to the moon? Or do you let it warm up... I think certain oils with additives will bring a better result if it runs at "idle"
Brent Zandstra in your car engine you have an oil pump trying to move cold oil through narrow passages into bearings or to the cylinder heads. Not quite the same as oil in a solo cup.
All I could think of was "Don't come home drunk and put that on your noodles! It won't be the sweet and sour you're expecting" lol Another nice job. Always interesting viewing! I'd still love to know what you think is the best engine degreaser after a leak ;)
Please test La's Totally Awesome All Purpose Cleaner and Degreaser when you test degreasers. It's 1 dollar a quart at Dollar Tree, and I have yet to see it outperformed by a significant amount for cleaning engines. It's wonderful stuff!
irgendwieanders1 2 stroke wont need motor oil if fuel oil is sour . Diesel wold run fine . In old times oil wells where powerd by crude oil burning diesel engines . Fuel to make fuel if u ask me
The sour did well on the film strength/lubricity test because of the high sulfer content. This is why diesel owners began griping when ultra low sulfer diesel became mandatory. Lost lubrication in the pump and fuel injectors.
The supertankers that haul the stuff have been caught using it to run the ship. Naturally the shippers are not exactly thrilled. I was surprised you didn’t get detonation or preignition. Good show.
Ok, so take any "personal lube" you want... put a few drops on your hands... rub them together. In a minute or two the water is gone and they get sticky... so NO, it wouldn't fly in an engine.
Please, you gotta try the pyrolisis oil. From wood or plastic, maybe from tires, but i wanted to see if a engine could run on them. If they actually can run with crude oil, they might as well run on plastic or tire pyrolisis oil or biocrude oil. If positive, this would open many precedents....
I think pyrolysis is not worth the effort for fuel, but.....it is a treasure trove of chemicals for organic synthesis. If a home chemist has a way to separate and identify chemicals from pyrolysis, he would have access to hundreds of chemicals , actualy thousands of chemicals.
I'm a 4th gen Oilman from Petrolia Ontario Canada.... This is by far the best vid I've ever come across! We have a working Oil Museum here in town if ever anyone wants to see the birth place of the Oil Industry (Shameless plug)
I'm quite amazed to see how well the engines ran on crude, it's always depicted as being tarry gloop rather than a liquid, so seeing an engine run right off it, it's impressive!! :) As for the lubricity, the sour is probably more lubricating as the sulphur in there acts like a lubricant, and is what kept diesel engines happy before they replaced traditional diesel fuel with Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD), which annoyed many a vintage diesel engine owner as they're having to use additives to keep their engines from being destroyed due to the lack of lubrication...
Yea man , I run about a 20-25% mix of “other” oils , like mmo,unused engine oil and a cetane booster , and maybe some atf... The new fuel is so dry, try lubricating a diesel fuel filter gasket and spinning it on. Haha you may as well use water , it’ll squeak less. Mmo must work , there is all kinds of warnings to not use it for on the road vehicles.
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Mr Project Farm, I feel like I'm not showing you the respect that you deserve by not addressing you by name. If you prefer to keep it private, I totally understand why, but can I ask your first name? I'm Craig from Texas. Once again, thanks for another awesome video. Several of us are looking forward to some diesel oriented videos in the future, hopefully you can brew some up for us. Thanks again friend!!
Hi Craig, Sorry about not mentioning my name. It's Todd. I need to get those diesel videos underway soon. The old diesel engine I have is sort of OCD...old, cranky and dangerous. LOL!
The problem with crude oil is it might have tar and other shits, which may vary from well to well, and that can cause lots of problems in the long run. Its more or less the same as running a diesel engine on unprocessed vegetable oil. It might work but the problem is reliability on the long run.
Primitive internal combustion engines were made to run on crude oil, of course they were crap en power and efficiency compared to nowadays engines but in the begining of times, those existed. (obviosly because the idea of refining crude oil came later) Btw, the sour oil which contained sulphur maybe, im not a chemist, maybe had better lubrication properties because sulphur compounds afaik are rather good lubricants.
yeah but i mean primitive in the sense of the development of said technology. It might be using a carburator but most likely it was designed in CAD in a computer and all the mold, parts and tooling were dont with much better materials and with better tolerances than the first one. Leds were also discovered in 1907 but that doesnt mean the current ones are in any primitive. Carburators are still used in aplications where you dont care for efficiency and dont have an alternator to power the injection system. Carburators are robust and simple, for stuff that needs that, they are unmatched, and you know the rules, the simplest the machine, the less prone to failure.
so many comments, don't know if it was mentioned. but the higher sulfur in the sour crude is probably what gave the great results on the bearing test. cutting oils use high sulfur to prevent galling. probably more so than film strength.
Amazing how those two oils practically revolutionized the world in the 1800s and 1900s. The industrial revolution would have never existed without crude oils.
@Paradoxical Nightmare yea I know but those rubbers and plastics were revolutionary. Besides steam engines just burn coal or wood which are also polluting.
@Paradoxical Nightmare how do you think we generate power in the first place? With massive steam turbines where we burn fuel. If your using batteries you may as well just run it direct
@Paradoxical Nightmare but where are they getting to power for there batteries? If there's limited clean water I can't imagine the infrastructure is very good.
I'm honestly surprised this worked. The exhaust from that sour crude has gotta be super nasty though, is basically vaping sulphuric acid. Very interesting video, thanks!
Two years after this video and that poor lawnmower is still kicking. It seriously has to be the baddest assed lawnmower of all lawnmowers! Also - thanks for another great video.
I bet it is been said in the comment section but yeah: try the sour crude oil as motoroil please! It did great on score test! Thank you for another brilliant video! I bet there is just me that asking for a test with Compressed Natural Gas on the vapor running engine. I’m asking noe because I know that stuff is burning quite hot and the CNG driving busses we have here in our fleet keeping the engine fan on all the time here in 27 degrees celcius to keep engine temperature normal. I belive the CNG have fairly low carbon build up and maybe makes the small engine run quieter too as it does on the big bus engines. I’m really curious to see what happening to a vapor running small engine when it’s feeded with CNG :D
There isn't much difference between diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, and heating oil. In fact, kerosene and heating oil are so similar that the federal government requires heating oil to have a dye added to it to differentiate between the two.
I didn't think it would burn the crude, and even more surprised that it didn't smoke like a chimney. Without a doubt, this mower is one of the best money can buy.
mharris1270 ya but im wondering how much you would have to put in the case and if would actually work. And i don't think there's oil pumps in Litt lawn mowers
A friend of mine has an old finish mower with blown out seals on the gearbox. Wouldn't hold oil so they drilled and tapped it for a zerk. Been running with grease instead of oil in there for like 5-7 years and still going strong. I agree this would be an awesome video!
It would NOT be an awesome video unless you enjoy blowing up engines.....which some people do. The grease would not get into the moving parts at all; it would just sit there in a big blob and do nothing. Hence the engine will seize or explode quickly from lack of lubrication. Small engines like this do not have oil pumps. Rule of thumb is, no oil filter=no oil pump (splash lubrication.) And don't be fooled by the hydraulic oil filter; some machines have no engine oil filter, but a hydraulic oil filter. For example, my wood splitter. This idea has been suggested many, many times, and PF guy knows it's terrible, but is too positive to say so. That's where I come in. :) I'm sure he'll never do it. He knows it will bake the engine.
If you listen in the background, you can hear Five Finger Death Punch being played from a US Army HUMMER as they were alerted by the two words "CRUDE OIL"
Yuck Foutube you can smell two cycle In the air with out huffing it. you can smell race fuel burning standing next to a running engine. not like i asked the guy to do bong hits off the exhaust. calm your tits.
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lol
LMAO
lol
😂😂
Does your lawnmower wake up in the morning and go: "Oh, god what is he going to do today?"
Lol
Best comment I have ever seen. That little engine has taken a beating. @ProjectFarm Is it a Kohler or Briggs & Stratton???
My 8 year old son thinks that it is a Briggs & Stratton motor, I think that the rest of the mower is a knockoff from MTD,
LMFAO dead dead dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@noidontthinksolol Tell that to Genesis Circa 1973
the lawnmower that actually still runs and makes it through all of these tests, is the mower that should breed more mowers
Its gotta be sterile by now
@@donzemanovic4205 it must be cloned then
Respect to the mower.
mower eugenics
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The sulfur compounds act as a lubricant. That's why the ultra low sulfur diesel had to have lubricity additives in order to work in the fuel pumps (around 2006).
Great point. Thank you
I saw the title and was immediately like *pfffff* obviously not, why is he even bothering?
I stand corrected.
Thanks for commenting. I was surprised it worked too.
We both learned something
My dude did brake parts cleaner once so anything is possible
I didn't watch the vid yet thanks for spoilers lol
A friend said he drove on crude oil, now I know he wasn't lying o__O
Forbidden bbq sauce
lol
Sweet baby rays crude oil
Rude oil
Why?
Private Boy and so Texas was born
When sour crude burns I believe it makes CS2 which is used to remove grease and wax as an industrial solvent, hence why the sour crude made the engine so clean
Great point!
This is the stuff I love seeing in comments :) thanks for the info
informative comment, up you go!
another damn tom what you think about my comment above? (Making sulferic acid from it)
Sour crude is oil with levels of h2s gas
If you taught science class when I was in grade school I wouldn't have had to spend so much time later in life learning what I wanted to know. You do a great job with all these projects 👍
Thank you!
Try crude oil in a diesel engiene
Thank you for the video idea!
Project Farm I suggest a Yanmar small diesel engine. Direct injected air cooled and easy to work with.
Wow I am surprised it actually ran
It would almost certainly run better; Considering how thick diesel is compared to gasoline.
I’ve heard claims that the lighter crude oils (as from much of Arabia) can fuel a Diesel engine without much trouble. I’d like to see if that’s true.
Maybe the good lubrication of the crude oil would make it suitable to run in a 2-stroke engine without having to add any oil? Would be a fun test as well, see if it survives.
This one seems really interesting
Thank you for the video idea!
Can you pump crude oil through a 2-stroke carburettor? Won't the viscosity be a problem without the crude oil being heated to reduce is viscosity?
The thing about crude oil is that it literally has everything in it required to run your engine either as a fuel or lubricant... but it’s also full of stuff that’s detrimental or inhibits easy and reliable operation.
Take your lubricity test. Yes in a short term high load application it performed better than motor oil. But the lighter fractions will act like solvents to prevent a film of oil staying on the internals when the engine is shut off and also possibly (quite likely) catch fire due to its extremely low flashpoint.
Similarly for a fuel.. it does have the low flashpoint required for gasoline engines, but it’s taking a lot of heavier fractions along for the ride of which some will burn as they reach their flashpoint, but many won’t. This can lead to problems with metering and filtration (as you experienced) deposits and terrible emissions as well as detonation in higher compression engines (I would imagine a lawnmower engine is a lot like an old flathead where it was such low compression it could run on petroleum OR kerosene).
Of course a Diesel engine would probably run better on this provided it wasn’t common rail direct injection as the crude would quickly clog injectors and wear out the pump. Perhaps the best use would be in an old jet engine with vaporizer tubes rather than injectors.
Crude oil was used in Japanese warships as an emergency measure in WWII due to diminishing oil and refining capacity. It resulted in much fouling of the exhaust flues and water tube boilers as well as it was an extreme fire hazard due to the low flashpoint (bunker fuel is typically a very heavy crude fraction both for its energy content as well as its low volatility).
Great point! Thank you
Heavy fuel oil is still used on ships today though there no way it would work in a normal engine, its far too viscous.
Unit injectors FTW.
Is it choc full of paraffin?
Excellent analysis of the pros & cons. Crude oil of any sort is probably too viscous for a diesel engine let alone a petrol (gasoline) engine.
"The EPA would like to know your location"
Lol
and usps
Haha
What why
@@colbycolson9203 heavy fuel oil.
Crude oil in a two stroke as a replacement of premixed gasoline would be interesting
Great video idea!
Now that is something extremely interesting!
You could use it for the oil part, but not the gasoline part.
@@ProjectFarm plz do it
@@ProjectFarm Yes do it please we are waiting :)
That mower's going to need new tires before the engine dies. Great test.
LOL! Great point!
That mower is a Trooper.
David P That opens up a whole range of new tests! What works as replacement tires for your lawnmower? "Honey we've found a use for your bagel dough!"
try the sour crude oil as motoroil please :O
Thank you for the video idea!
yes please
I agree!
I agree!
Other than being dirty, it should as well do as good as a conventional oil lol
* me pulling up to the gas station *
: gimme 120$ sour crude
lol. Thanks
Hey thats 2 barrels what are driving
Currently, how big of a super tanker do you want with that?
They’ll give it to you for free now
Yeah I drive a Bus and only have a 40 gallon tank
The sulfur is a lubricant in fuels and oils. There was a big concern with lubricity during the switch to ultra low sulfur diesels a few years back.
Erik Kovacs When they made the switch, it was messing up fuel pumps left and right. I hate the low sulphur diesel.
All great points and thanks for commenting!
Even if your fuel pump hates it, your lungs should like it better than the high sulphur oil, or rather the exhaust gases from it.
Haha there still is.
I run my old vw on a crapload of other oils.
People give me unused cases of oil so I throw it in the tank with about 5-6 other things like cetane booster and mmo and whatnot.
When it’s up around a 25-30% concentration it runs pretty nice.
skunkjobb yes.... because it exhausts inside the cab.
I worked in the industry and put raw condensate in my truck. It knocked like crazy. I added octane boost and premium every time it went down a quarter tank. After 2 times it stopped knocking.
Interesting.
The old timers called that stuff "head gas." You do have to boost the octane, but it will run.
Huh, never would have guessed that crude oil would run in an engine. I always imagined crude oil more like used motor oil. Thick, dirty, and not producing flammable fumes.
Thank you!
I use 20% Waste Motor Oil (5W30) mixed with 80% Waste Jet A1 to run my 3.0L Diesel Truck. Have been doing so now for 4+ years without any problems.
mharris1270 - "I wouldn't pay $25 a gallon for new oil to burn in your truck's gas tank"
Hence why I use WASTE Motor Oil, which most mechanic workshops will happily store and give to you for FREE, because it saves them paying to have the waste oil removed and transported. But every time that I do an oil change, I simply throw that oil into my 1000L JetA1 storage container and allow sufficient time for it to settle to allow microscopic metal fragments and gel fragments to drop to the bottom.
How much money do you save by using waste oil?
My image of crude oil is heated roof tar OR really, really old and thick differential oil. Mind you, I have never seen the real article with my own eyes or felt it with my hands.
However, I bet if you heat it hot enough you could make ANY ICE run on it(talking from experience with oil fueled ranges, heaters and pottery ovens).
Mix the two together for a delicious sweet and sour topping for popcorn.
Forbiden snack
Yes officers this comment right here
It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax!
R/Thanksihateit
@@jordandias2082 r/foundthemobileuser
Working in the oil industry, this thought has crossed my mind. Where I work (southern Australia) the crude oil is so light it's hard to tell it from dirty water. Great video, as always. You've satisfied my curiosity so many times and saved me hours of experimenting just "so I know". So thankful that you share your work and knowledge with others.
Thank you!
Wow I honestly didn't think it'd run like that if at all!
I was surprised too!
Given the low gravity of this, I was expecting it to work. What is more surprising is that the light-sweet crude was harder to flow than the sour stuff.
As I understand it, this particular source of crude is especially light and loaded with stuff even lighter than gasoline. In fact, it's quite possible that a lot of gasses escaped this crude before it could even be put in the bottles and shipped. I was wondering where he got crude oil. That stuff is NASTY.
many years ago while working for a builder, i ran out of gas miles from a gas station. looking through my van for something flammable, i found a can of wood preserver, it got me home with the engine protesting loudly all the way.
That's interesting!
I had an similar situation but i used paint thinner, also with an protesting engine but made it home
I also looked around found my wife,and on that trip home there was also alot of protesting from the "engine".i also got home,warm and dry and all ready to sleep on the sofa!
I would have never put that in my car, stranded or not.
@@Dover939 yes you would have. (Unless you wanted to walk hundreds of miles.) There weren't cellphones back then.(or he was out of cellphone range.)
Crude oil? Slap that in an oil refinery and you got yourself some Low Grade Fuel.
Thank you for the video idea!
Love that RUST reference! XD
Or go to a quarry and get some sulfur or high quality.
Rust lmao
Dead af. I wonder if this video came up because all of the rust recommendation videos on yt.
Walking that endless grassy walk with the lawn mower makes for an excellent outro! I love it!
This was a fascinating experiment, as well!
Thank you!
Mix the sweet and sour together and get you some egg rolls.
LOL!
If the eggs are rotten you'll get the sulfur smell too.
Lol!!!
Don't forget the duck sauce :P
Maybe it will end up like sour patch kids. Sour. Sweet. Gone
Using a 22" Push MOWER to mow what looks like 20 acres..... Classic.
You keep makin' videos and I'll keep watchin'.
LOL! Thank you!
Mr Farm is superman!!
Yeah, and I hate to say it but he missed a spot....
Your Grandad was doing it right and stellar if he was sipping a cold one while at it.
Francois Deshue ,
That's one reason why we have children for...
I have to say, I was really impressed also, not just the film strength but how clean the sour crude burned. I didn’t expect that. I wonder how the efficiency test would do.. being that it’s also lubricating pretty well
Thanks for sharing.
you could have tried heating the oil instead of adding the gas.
You're right. I should have done this.
Gassifier
Heating Oil is Diesel
Anonarchist heating the oil
You must use a hot water bath to heat up flammable liquids, you are not supposed to use straight heating or open flames. Dipping the full plastic reservoir into a pot with hot water for 10 mins would have done the trick!
And I love how he actually mows the lawn as a real world test, grow grass grow, we need more videos!
lol. Thank you!
MIND BLOWN! I'm amazed it worked, nevermind as well as it did!
I was very surprised too.
I bought a Murray mower with Briggs & Stratton engine in March 2003. It finally failed to start in March of 2019. Had 2 small kids and no time so I took it to local shop. They charged me $50 bucks and told me it was not salvageable as it had no compression and was beyond repair. Put it on the curb. Picked up immediately. An hour later a random guy brings it back to me and asks for $25 for the repair he has just made. (Dirty carb). I paid him smiling and still use that same mower 3 years later.
I LOVE those old Briggs & Strattons.
Thanks for sharing.
Try them as diesel fuel replacement please.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll do this soon!
Thanks!
@@ProjectFarm please do this
I live in Texas and it's a common thing to hear about some guy who works on an oil rig running his diesel truck on crude. Never actually seen it, but my dad worked in the oil fields for 20 years and said people really did it a lot.
@@tripplefives1402 I used to run waste oil in my 83 f250. Ran like a champ. Just filter it first.
They have oil tanker ships that run on crude oil.
This is great information.
Yup, bunker crude is (or maybe was, knowing the enviro-whackos) a commonly used fuel for ships-at-sea. So snotty it has to be heated to make it go through the injection system, and so smoky you'll get fined for burning it in a lot of ports, but very cheap.
GreatNorthernDad The envirowackos you mention should definitely worry about ships more than cars. One cargo ship emits more pollution in one day than 50,000,000 cars in that same day (yes, 50 million). And there an estimated 90,000 ships on the seas.
David Roberts Don't know about that. A toothless figurehead who can't really do anything of substance that affects anyone outside of the US of A without many layers of approval of congress and other agency bureaucracy VS. world wide misguided and misinformed individual, first-world, privileged, poke-my-nose-into-my-neighbours'-business-fascists tut-tutting over small-picture, simplified problems rather than the things of real consequence. People generally have zero clues about things they can't see in front of their morning cereal bowl. I own 4 cars, 4 motorbikes & multitude other engine powered tools n toys. But I also know container ship & aircraft emissions are a real issue no one wants to admit to lest it means they can't buy their iphone or nikes.
The Japanese ran some warships on crude oil late in WW2. They tended to blow up far more easily.
Happy Monday project farm upload!
Happy Monday and thank you! By the way, the Project Farm Channel will have a 30-minute episode on the Velocity Channel this coming Friday at 9:30 PM EST (Velocity Dispatch, Season 1, Episode 6).
Cant Wait!!
Project Farm I like my comments also
"How do you tell what type of fuel it is?"
"What are you, stupid? You taste it; unleaded tastes a little tangy, supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good" -Ricky
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I see whats coming next - crude oil in crank case :D DO IT!!
Thank you for the video idea!
So, lets try it on 2-stroke engine, if it good as lubricant! "Natural pre-mixed twostroke gasoline"
Rh- great idea!!
crankysports Yeah, it "should" work well! @project farm
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That was very informative. I feel better about my chances of being Mad Max after the world ends...
Thank you!
Just build a fractioning tower. Heck, I’ve made guzzoline out of crude with a test tube and a Bunsen burner.
It may work but there's reasons why we don't use Crude oil and instead use gas
@@mftripz8445 but no one will care as much after the wold ends
@@AnarickTheDevil your engine will, smart guy
Awesome experiment. Thank you Jerry for helping ProjectFarm accomplish this 🤗
Thanks and you are welcome!
Pretty darn fascinating! BTW, the turbine engines in the first few pumping stations on the Alaska pipeline use crude oil because it's too difficult to haul refined fuel that far north. The one thing they do to the crude first is push it thru filters to get out as much dirt and sand as they can.
Thank you
Did they have to pre-heat the crude oil as well as filtering it?
@@grahamepigney8565 crude oil supposedly has a gel point of 59°F, so there is a valid reason to be concerned there
Nice! Now I'm heading out to the garden and start digging! lol
LOL!
Just go shootin’ for some food like Jed Clampett!
Always top notch videos!
Thank you very much! By the way, I really enjoy your channel!
I am astonished. I did not expect it to work at all.
Thank you
When using you lubricity tester I think you should let it run for 10 or 15 seconds with no load before adding weight... would be interested to see if the oils can build a a film strength before adding load
Thank you for the recommendation!
Don't change your method when you want to compare new results to old.
Put it this way when you start your car do you instantly rev it to the moon? Or do you let it warm up... I think certain oils with additives will bring a better result if it runs at "idle"
Brent Zandstra in your car engine you have an oil pump trying to move cold oil through narrow passages into bearings or to the cylinder heads. Not quite the same as oil in a solo cup.
My yard is full of barrels of crude oil because they paid me to take it. So I’ll just half and half it with gasoline in my gas tank. Lmao
I wonder if snake oil(actual snake oil) would be a good engine lubricant.
Great video idea!
Don't think Leftist rhetoric will burn that easily. Or lubricate well either. Burn, maybe.
I'm sure Elon Musk could sell you lots of snake oil.
Maybe when it's hot, but animal fat tends to solidify at room temperature.
Golden Grenadier that's a great idea and very funny joke
Your videos are so much fun to watch. Thank you, and please keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
All I could think of was "Don't come home drunk and put that on your noodles! It won't be the sweet and sour you're expecting" lol Another nice job. Always interesting viewing! I'd still love to know what you think is the best engine degreaser after a leak ;)
LOL! Funny! Thanks again for the video idea. I will definitely test degreasers.
Project Farm can you test if green tire slime will plug a hole in a radiator? Or put through spark plug hole to help improve compression?
Please test La's Totally Awesome All Purpose Cleaner and Degreaser when you test degreasers. It's 1 dollar a quart at Dollar Tree, and I have yet to see it outperformed by a significant amount for cleaning engines. It's wonderful stuff!
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I used GUNK brand, they do a red and less stick green version. Both work well and rinse away with water.
How about a 50/50 Sweet & Sour mix?
Great recommendation!
Man, all of a sudden I've got the urge to order some Chinese.
Works just as well as a 50/50 Sprite Vodka mix.
Now I wonder how this stuff would perform in an Diesel & especially in a 2Stroke engine...
Thank you for the video ideas!
Good call, running it straight up in a 2 cycle would be interesting.
irgendwieanders1 2 stroke wont need motor oil if fuel oil is sour . Diesel wold run fine . In old times oil wells where powerd by crude oil burning diesel engines . Fuel to make fuel if u ask me
MaceThePro haven't seen any of them but have seen lots that run off casing gas( gas not liquid)
Roger Galbraith waste gas from oil well?
The sour did well on the film strength/lubricity test because of the high sulfer content. This is why diesel owners began griping when ultra low sulfer diesel became mandatory. Lost lubrication in the pump and fuel injectors.
Thank you
The supertankers that haul the stuff have been caught using it to run the ship. Naturally the shippers are not exactly thrilled. I was surprised you didn’t get detonation or preignition. Good show.
Thank you
Are detonation and pre-ignition different things? I recall a difference.
@@louf7178 yes very. one is timing, the other hot deposits in cylinder
I thought it was standard for Supertankers to run on crude oil.
Because then you can keep the oil in one bigass container
you should try thinning the sweet crude with ethanol and seeing if it eliminates the smoke
Thank you for the video idea!
Got you recorded on the velocity channel!!
Thank you! I'm rather surprised they expressed interest in the channel.
Project Farm Far out!👍
Don't be. You're genuine which is a Very Rare rarity!
Use crude oil as engine oil
Evan Hord,
Which show on Velocity?
U live in the Bakken zone here in Canada (just north of the border of ND) and this is awesome to see. Keep up the awesome work :)
Thank you very much!
Wow - very interesting! Would not have guessed that outcome!
Thank you!
I’d like to see a video comparing different sex lubes and a replacement for engine oil lol
Please make this happen!
Great. And when they either drive in Quahog, Rhode Island or by Seth MacFarlane, we'll hear Stewie asking if any one smells Astroglide.
The silicone ones might work.
Ok, so take any "personal lube" you want... put a few drops on your hands... rub them together. In a minute or two the water is gone and they get sticky... so NO, it wouldn't fly in an engine.
I agree
Please, you gotta try the pyrolisis oil. From wood or plastic, maybe from tires, but i wanted to see if a engine could run on them. If they actually can run with crude oil, they might as well run on plastic or tire pyrolisis oil or biocrude oil. If positive, this would open many precedents....
Thank you for the video idea!
I think pyrolysis is not worth the effort for fuel, but.....it is a treasure trove of chemicals for organic synthesis. If a home chemist has a way to separate and identify chemicals from pyrolysis, he would have access to hundreds of chemicals , actualy thousands of chemicals.
I'm a 4th gen Oilman from Petrolia Ontario Canada.... This is by far the best vid I've ever come across! We have a working Oil Museum here in town if ever anyone wants to see the birth place of the Oil Industry (Shameless plug)
Thank you!
it would be interesting to see how they would work with the airater bottle carb you had :)
Great recommendation!
You should try making homemade fuel and see if you can get it to work
Thank you for the video idea!
Also keep up the great videos! They are entertaining and educational
Like this idea!
Greetings from Germany, Love your videos :)
Greetings and thank you!
Jan Beller Ich dachte schon ich bin der einzige Deutsche hier ;-)
MOFAROCKER 88 Ne ne :D aber ist immer ganz interessant zu sehen wie er diese Experimente mit liebe zum Detail macht
Jan Beller find ich auch^^ schade dass es keinen solchen deutschen Kanal gibt,aber ich kann ja ganz gut Englisch,von daher.....
MOFAROCKER 88 ja finde ich auch schade aber mein Englisch ist auch gut also kein Problem :D geiler Name übrigens:D
Just started watching your videos. A lot of youtubers should take your videos for examples. Short to the point and sweet what I like awesome job.
Thanks!
I'm quite amazed to see how well the engines ran on crude, it's always depicted as being tarry gloop rather than a liquid, so seeing an engine run right off it, it's impressive!! :)
As for the lubricity, the sour is probably more lubricating as the sulphur in there acts like a lubricant, and is what kept diesel engines happy before they replaced traditional diesel fuel with Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD), which annoyed many a vintage diesel engine owner as they're having to use additives to keep their engines from being destroyed due to the lack of lubrication...
Great point regarding the Sulfur and ULSD.
Yea man , I run about a 20-25% mix of “other” oils , like mmo,unused engine oil and a cetane booster , and maybe some atf...
The new fuel is so dry, try lubricating a diesel fuel filter gasket and spinning it on.
Haha you may as well use water , it’ll squeak less.
Mmo must work , there is all kinds of warnings to not use it for on the road vehicles.
Sulfur spelling...
In British English (where English originates), Sulphur is spelled with a ph, rather than an f, so it is correct according to the OED... :)
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Mr Project Farm, I feel like I'm not showing you the respect that you deserve by not addressing you by name. If you prefer to keep it private, I totally understand why, but can I ask your first name? I'm Craig from Texas. Once again, thanks for another awesome video. Several of us are looking forward to some diesel oriented videos in the future, hopefully you can brew some up for us. Thanks again friend!!
Hi Craig, Sorry about not mentioning my name. It's Todd. I need to get those diesel videos underway soon. The old diesel engine I have is sort of OCD...old, cranky and dangerous. LOL!
I always get so happy from watching your documentation on various products, thanks for your always positive aproach.
Thank you!
Try to run wood gas in you engine! I suppose you’ll have to build some sort of contraption but that’s just good content
Love your videos cheers
Thank you for the video idea!
You mean methanol? Distilled from wood?
also interesting would be to run the engine on wood gas , this was done during the war years, should run but a lot weaker.
The problem with crude oil is it might have tar and other shits, which may vary from well to well, and that can cause lots of problems in the long run. Its more or less the same as running a diesel engine on unprocessed vegetable oil. It might work but the problem is reliability on the long run.
Great point! Short term gain, but long-term pain...
Shits?! Haha
Primitive internal combustion engines were made to run on crude oil, of course they were crap en power and efficiency compared to nowadays engines but in the begining of times, those existed. (obviosly because the idea of refining crude oil came later)
Btw, the sour oil which contained sulphur maybe, im not a chemist, maybe had better lubrication properties because sulphur compounds afaik are rather good lubricants.
yeah but i mean primitive in the sense of the development of said technology. It might be using a carburator but most likely it was designed in CAD in a computer and all the mold, parts and tooling were dont with much better materials and with better tolerances than the first one. Leds were also discovered in 1907 but that doesnt mean the current ones are in any primitive.
Carburators are still used in aplications where you dont care for efficiency and dont have an alternator to power the injection system. Carburators are robust and simple, for stuff that needs that, they are unmatched, and you know the rules, the simplest the machine, the less prone to failure.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and love your channel so very interesting thanks for everything you do buddy
I appreciate that!
Once more I'm amazed
Thank you!
8:40 "what are you doing?"
"Oh nothing just taking my lawnmower for a walk"
Sulphur = high pressure additive. That's why gear oils have that heavy, sour smell ;-)
Great point!
Some ATF has that smell, too.
so many comments, don't know if it was mentioned.
but the higher sulfur in the sour crude is probably what gave the great results on the bearing test.
cutting oils use high sulfur to prevent galling. probably more so than film strength.
Great point! Thank you
Amazing how those two oils practically revolutionized the world in the 1800s and 1900s. The industrial revolution would have never existed without crude oils.
Great point!
@Paradoxical Nightmare crude oil can make so many more things than fuels
@Paradoxical Nightmare yea I know but those rubbers and plastics were revolutionary. Besides steam engines just burn coal or wood which are also polluting.
@Paradoxical Nightmare how do you think we generate power in the first place? With massive steam turbines where we burn fuel. If your using batteries you may as well just run it direct
@Paradoxical Nightmare but where are they getting to power for there batteries? If there's limited clean water I can't imagine the infrastructure is very good.
Project Farm see if racing fuel will clean the engine better than fuel aditives. Thanks!!
Thank you for the video idea!
C-16 race fuel
I'm honestly surprised this worked. The exhaust from that sour crude has gotta be super nasty though, is basically vaping sulphuric acid.
Very interesting video, thanks!
Two years after this video and that poor lawnmower is still kicking.
It seriously has to be the baddest assed lawnmower of all lawnmowers!
Also - thanks for another great video.
Thank you!
I bet it is been said in the comment section but yeah: try the sour crude oil as motoroil please! It did great on score test!
Thank you for another brilliant video!
I bet there is just me that asking for a test with Compressed Natural Gas on the vapor running engine.
I’m asking noe because I know that stuff is burning quite hot and the CNG driving busses we have here in our fleet keeping the engine fan on all the time here in 27 degrees celcius to keep engine temperature normal. I belive the CNG have fairly low carbon build up and maybe makes the small engine run quieter too as it does on the big bus engines.
I’m really curious to see what happening to a vapor running small engine when it’s feeded with CNG :D
Thank you for the video idea!
Now my room is filled with crude oil smoke from watching this.
lol
you need to get an M35 2 ton army truck that has the multi fuel engine. It think it runs on gas, diesel, jet fuel and crude!
Nice! Thank you
or a soviet MIG-21, that will run on anything from kerosene to vodka :-)
There isn't much difference between diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, and heating oil. In fact, kerosene and heating oil are so similar that the federal government requires heating oil to have a dye added to it to differentiate between the two.
I didn't think it would burn the crude, and even more surprised that it didn't smoke like a chimney. Without a doubt, this mower is one of the best money can buy.
Thanks for the feedback.
Sweet now I can get paid to fill up my tank!
Thanks for watching.
I could almost feel the smoke on my face
lol. Thank you
I'm shocked at the fact it ran at all!
Me too!
I never would have thought it! Thanks, Todd!
Happy to help!
What if you use grease instead of oil in the crankcase?
Thank you for the video idea!
mharris1270 ya but im wondering how much you would have to put in the case and if would actually work. And i don't think there's oil pumps in Litt lawn mowers
mharris1270 how about if he does it he does it
A friend of mine has an old finish mower with blown out seals on the gearbox. Wouldn't hold oil so they drilled and tapped it for a zerk. Been running with grease instead of oil in there for like 5-7 years and still going strong. I agree this would be an awesome video!
It would NOT be an awesome video unless you enjoy blowing up engines.....which some people do. The grease would not get into the moving parts at all; it would just sit there in a big blob and do nothing. Hence the engine will seize or explode quickly from lack of lubrication.
Small engines like this do not have oil pumps. Rule of thumb is, no oil filter=no oil pump (splash lubrication.) And don't be fooled by the hydraulic oil filter; some machines have no engine oil filter, but a hydraulic oil filter. For example, my wood splitter.
This idea has been suggested many, many times, and PF guy knows it's terrible, but is too positive to say so. That's where I come in. :) I'm sure he'll never do it. He knows it will bake the engine.
Why is there a knick on the top of the piston?
Aaron Cameron so you can know which way the piston goes when installing it
Must be a rimfire engine, obviously.
@@Kahraba99 yes i got mine wrong when i replaced the broken connecting rod. didn't seem to make too much difference ran for years that way.
@@erniew5805 wow, that's amazing, usually the piston doesn't connect to the crank properly if you put it wrong
Love ur every video..
Thank you!
Not sure why people asked this but it's hilarious. No one would ever do that other than you. Love it.
Thanks!
Is this with the sand, silt, and water removed? Or straight out of the ground?
There was water in it that I had to separate out from the stuff I tested. Great question!
If you listen in the background, you can hear Five Finger Death Punch being played from a US Army HUMMER as they were alerted by the two words
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lol. Thank you!
In all seriousness, I enjoy your videos. Ever thought about finding a decent junk yard car engine to try these experiments in?
Worlds deadliest exhaust fumes right there...i wonder if you could get an emissions test done...I suspect theres alot of chemicals in that exhaust
Thanks for commenting.
Project Farm did you notice an exhaust odor ?
Yuck Foutube you can smell two cycle In the air with out huffing it. you can smell race fuel burning standing next to a running engine. not like i asked the guy to do bong hits off the exhaust. calm your tits.
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. . . non-sense . . . what we just saw was the spirit of ancients animals and vegetation leaving this world for good. LOL.
AMAZING !!!
This is a historic event.
Well done!
Thanks so much!
"Will it run?!" Let's try everything on the shelf.
Thank you for the video idea!
put the crude oil in the crank case
Thank you for the video idea!
that poor lawn mower
Like me, this mower isn't a picky eater!
Project Farm its like the deuce of gas engines
I really like the cutaway crank case and piston jug on your shelf!
Thanks!