Will Vegetable Oil work as Engine Oil? Let's find out!
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- Is vegetable oil up to the task of being used as engine oil? Let's find out!
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I used vegetable oil in a lawnmower after I checked the regular motor oil and did not have any more at hand. I mowed the lawn and it smelled like I was cooking French Fries
lol
My dad's chainsaw runs on the common 50:1 ratio mixed gasoline. I added about 2/3 tablespoon of blended cooking oil to the gas tank when he wasn't looking. Don't tell him. ;D Cutting down dead trees and the chainsaw smelled like motorcross dirtbike exhaust. Potent. More visible smoke but nowhere near a night and day difference.
Just one(1) correction point. The people from Belgium invented the fries, that is the famously called French Fries. And in the area, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, all give out a big scoop of Mayonaise, not ketchup, with an order of fries. Can’t remember who started Telling the French got tagged with the fries. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Pro tip Henauder nobody gives one (1) shit
@@HenauderTitzauf i get my french fries from america personally
Now lets try to cook with 10w30 ....🤔🤔🤔
Mmmmmmmm. Yummy
You might be able to with virgin crude, but commercial motor oil has been refined with a lot of added chemicals and detergents.
Robert LeBlanc sounds like a clean asshole to me.
lets make some frenchie fries?
Waynes Grid HELL YEAH!!! Probably still cleaner than McDonald’s
That frozen flow test was comedy gold 😂
Thank you
Project Farm Thank you*****************************
Anyone planning on invading Russia in the winter take note
Vegetable oil can't avoid to freeze, so it won't be suitable for engine oil in the snow weather countries
@@chetmanley8755 Everybody should have learned so far not to attack Russia. Period.
Hi my name is Mike and a while ago I got diagnosed with cancer and find myself having a lot of downtime so I appreciate the video you put out it really helps pass the time
Thank you very much Mike. I hope the cancer goes away and you heal quickly. God Bless, Todd
Hope you get better Mike!
Good luck with your treatment!
Get well Mike
Thanks
You realize you are becoming Shop Teacher to the entire nation? Excellent stuff, this is truly education
Thank you very much!
STOTUS
Entire nation? More like a good amount of the world :D
"Small Engine Experimentation 101" !!!
Tomtom889 yea all 23k of us
Please don't ever let this wonderful channel become a grind for you. Always do it because you want to and because you are curious. You have maybe the best channel on TH-cam! Superb!
Thank you very much!
Brad Conklin go to bed
He will do what I tell him understand!
This takes me back to high school auto shop circa 1981. I still remember the instructor beginning a classroom module with a simple question ... "what is lubrication ?" ... nobody was even close to being correct, it was a long but informative discussion. At the most basic level It's the cooling and separation of moving parts. That's it. No surprise to me the vegetable oil worked well. Funny how some nuggets of wisdom and knowledge stick with you for life while I couldn't tell you what I ate yesterday.
Thanks for commenting! Sounds like you had a great shop teacher!
KY jelly as an answer may have caught him off guard.
That's pretty much what.... she said 😏
If you asked the questions of, and how does that cooling and separation of moving parts actually work, and what makes a particular oil really good for that-a really good oil, you'd have even much less people able to answer that question well.
You had a bowl of Lucky Charms and then you smoked a joint!
I've given you more technical feedback a few times recently but all I want to say this time is thanks, these videos don't look easy to produce, coming up with new methods of testing isn't easy, and I can only assume they're massively time consuming. Awesome work, thank you!
Glad you like them!
The slo-mo into the carb is really cool, love the videos, keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Me too, Commander and I keep forgetting to tell you. Bill did it for me!
So basically, if you lube your lawnmower with vegetable oil, don't leave it outside in Alaska in wintertime and then attempt to mow the snow off your lawn.
LOL! Great point!
You should make go carts using these engines. And see what kind of power they can make .
Fsilone basically
There is such a thing as a snowblower, you know..
Tjita1 lol we know he is making a joke since most of the motors he uses in videos are from lawbmowers
An interesting implication of this is that if you ever got access to a diesel engine to do experiments on, that means you could both run and lubricate the engine with vegetable oil.
This is a great recommendation! I'm hoping to buy a small diesel engine soon.
Cool, I can't wait to see what you test on it!
I wonder if this would cause a runaway engine? I noticed that there was a lot of residue left on the cylinder and head. If there’s enough blow by from the vegetable oil I’d imagine you might have an issue
Another vote for this - I was very excited to see a veg oil test on your channel - all the years of people telling me that veg oil is a poor lubricant compared to diesel in my fuel injection pump seem to be disproved. Maybe you could also test diesel alongside veg oil and regular 10w/30-40-50 oil etc?
Well done and thanks again :)
But the issue is if the diesel decides to run away, the only way to stop it is to restrict air flow to the intake as diesels dont have butterfly valves like a gas engine does.
The cold test at 3:36 cracked me up. The "plop" sound killed me!
Thanks for watching.
I did expect it to work at least fairly decently but it appeared to me to be a bit more capable then I thought it would be. Ive had this exact curiosity ever since the first time I poured 5w20 in to an engine and felt as if I was preparing to cook fried chicken because of how thin it was. Thanks for the video sir we appreciate it.
Thank you!
I was once pouring 0W20 synthetic oil in my new car and I could hear it go down to the drain pan. Mother of thin lol
I work at Toyota and the new 18 Camrys have 0w-16 oil. Basically water
Gutsup wow. I never even knew 0w16 existed until today. What are the factory recommended oil change intervals on those oils?
I agree, I think oftentimes we underestimate organic (in the traditional sense) food-grade oils, they obviously work fairly well in the tool world for many purposes. I mean, I wouldn't swap out a vehicles motor oil for vegetable oil, there are so many modifiers added even if it matched lubricity it'd turn to gunk rapidly, but as we begin our slow drift away from petroleum we'll still need "oil" for all sorts of moving parts. Heck, instead of trying to refine corn into a weak gas alternative they should put the research into better organically-derived oils for lubrication. I mean, castor and linseed oils are still preferred in several instances over synthetics, I'm sure with a little R&D they could probably replace a lot of lubricants with less toxic and renewable lubricants.
That's a well seasoned lawn mower now. You cast iron guys know what I mean.
@Bill Williams if you gotta ask, then it wasn't a very good one.
Good one
LOL I JUST RESTORED AND SEASONED A CAST IRON PAN TODAY!
Next: I "season" my CBR600F3
Always taste better on a seasoned cast iron
wow man i bet you post those annoying 30 second hipster cooking videos on facebook
This guy solved everyones panic about fossil fuels running out xD
lol
Richard Skipper Yes, a natural substance containing hydrocarbons from ancient decomposed matter that was trapped in liquid and can be refined into a fuel.
Beyond that, there's been a company making motor oil with _vegetable oil_ as its base oil _since the early 1990s._ They're just simply not popular, nor are they in Walmart (that I've seen, beyond Walmart's site anyhow.) Check out the company's site; they're "Renewable Lubricants Inc." I used their oil, too, and it works fine.
@Richard Skipper Than what would be considered a fossil fuel? hmmmm
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I'm not sure who gets the most joy out of these videos, You making them or, Me watching them. I look forward to watching them all. Thank you for the joy :-)
Thank you very much!
Works in an emergency but probably costs more than cheap autozone brand oil which would work better. Good to know tho! If I’m out on my four wheeler and have an oil leaking issue and can only find a grocery or corner store that doesn’t sell motor oil I can buy some veggie oil and make it home!👍🏻
Great point and thanks for commenting!
Or drive to a auto shop
@@gabrielgarcia9822 drive with no oil?
@@gumelini1 once my sister drove a year without oil.
She did not, the engine would not hold and seize pretty fast. Proof? Check out the other videos where he tries to use other things like shampoo as oil, it seized the engine after a minute. I refuse to belive that your sister could drive more than a minute without any lubrication whatsoever.
I used Mazola in my 3 wheeler to get it out of deer camp. It smelled like I was riding a deep fryer! (It always burned oil while I had it).
LOL! Glad it worked!
upside downdog the clutches hate you
Project Farm
Lol same but different.
Standard blue washer fluid (2gallons) got me home after I burst a coolant hose in the car and repaired it.
Notice I was careful to not say “blew a hose” 🤔😬😬
Lol Mazola corn oil is also packaged by Stratas Foods LLC.
@MrHillfolk
A guy was traveling with his family when his car broke down. It was towed to the nearest garage. The mechanic said it would be a while before he could look at it so the guy took off with his family for a little while. When they returned the father didn't realize he had ice cream all over his face. He asked the mechanic if he figured out what was wrong with his car. The mechanic stated, it looks like you blew a seal. The guy suddenly in a panic wipes his face and proclaims, no it's just ice cream.
Will straight pump diesel work as an emergency crankcase lubricant? People do this all the time to flush sludgy crankcases and I am wondering how much damage if any it causes.
knurlgnar24 Same question
Thank you for this recommendation!
Low oil pressure and won't lubricate near as well. May overtime deteriorate seals & gaskets.
No more than 100 miles is recommended when flushing.
Its used in very small mixture quantity with oil strictly for cleaning. Valve seals and gaskets are not made to withstand fuel. I have seen diesel and gas engines with flooding problems wash the pan gaskets out.
knurlgnar24 No. In the diesel world, when certain types of injectors fail, they dump fuel into the crankcase. Bad things happen to the bearings and rings, quickly.
Arguably top 5 TH-cam channels! I love your consistency of the scientific method! Your ability to test what your viewers request is such a great niche in this platform. Please keep the videos coming!
Thank you very much!!
Try Dawn dish soap as a substitute for oil
Thank you for this recommendation!
That would be awesome
Montana lifestyle soap is a surfactant so I don’t think it would work.
Dennis Gibson II should still try it to see what happens
I’ve been think this ever since I’ve seen these videos
Finally, I've been waiting all week for your new video .
Thank you!
Will baby oil work engine oil?
Thank you for this recommendation!
it could, it is mineral oil, also it might catch fire! lol
I think it will run pretty hot
Burn baby burn!
Jeremiah Clemens
Yes. As I recall it's a Paraffin oil. Might have a low flash point and equally become far too thin when heated.
these videos could not be more well done.
Thank you!
“Now, what we will be doing today differently than in the past, is after an hour of hard use, we will be removing the vegetable oil and making some yummy 🍟!”
😁
LOL! Thanks
Talking about some fries... How did the heated oil smell?
Robert Steich running it in my tractor instead of diesel made a smell between McDonald’s and burning vegetable oil. It wasn’t at all unpleasant.
Project Farm how did it smell when you lifted the head off for the “after” pic?
I’m thinking fries now ttyl😂
Hay its ready for a fast food place near you yum
The slow motion shots are absolutely incredible! Great work, and great content!!
Thank you!
Yeah, the slo-mo stuff was cool.
what kind of camera do you use for the Slow-mo shots?
Will an engine run on Zippo fluid?
Thank you for this recommendation!
Sure it will.
Great idea
"Zippo fluid" is Naptha/ White Gas.. almost the same as regular gas.. PF If you are going to try this, buy a can gallon of Coleman fuel vs little bottles of lighter fluid, it'll be MUCH cheaper :) I have an old Coleman stove that runs on both, per instructions, so they must be similar...
@@mikecollins8241 isn't Coleman's white gas only unleaded gas? Unleaded wasn't available at the pump some years ago so Coleman marketed it as white gas.
Canola oil. Been using that to restore tools and lubricate parts. Best stuff I ever used. Seems to handle cold temperatures better than other oils I have tried so far.
Thanks for sharing.
Never would have expected it to do this good. Thanks for another great video sir!
Thank you!
The semi-thawed oil plopping into the cup was the highlight for me.
LOL!
Project Farm mineral oil please I beg
My car is vegan.
lol
My diesel engine runs on bacon grease and is cooled by environmentalists’ tears.
You _can_ run a Diesel engine on Renewable Lubricants Inc. Oil (made with vegetable oil as its base oil so it's non toxic) and then run the Diesel on Biodiesel. Vegan Diesel!
@@101Volts The problem is that after awhile, especially if there is blow by happening (where a small amount of fuel gets in the oil), then the oil, no matter what it's base is, will become more toxic to the environment.
In order for it to remain non, or much less, toxic, it would have to be a newer engine in very good shape, and you would need to change the oil more quickly.
and is Gluten Free & does Cross Fit & has to let everyone know (whether they ask or not).
Finally a decent demonstration. Thanks for doing this video. Great job. 🇺🇸
Thanks so much!
I love the fact that almost no one dislikes your videos, keep up the good work !!!
Thank you!
How about an Ethylene Glycol lubricity test? Since its used to lubricate water pumps how will it lubricate an entire engine?
Thank you for this recommendation!
hmm i like that idea, i think it should work quite well!
Water pumps have sealed bearings.
Regardless of my misinformation, which I'm honestly surprised given all the times I've heard it, Ethylene Glycol does have lubricity properties. Like a thin oil. So it's no surprise why I and so many people have believed that. I think it would still be a good thing to test just for fun.
Most if not all waterpumps (not checked every waterpump) have a seal then a hole then the sealed bearings, the hole is so if the seal leaks coolant doesn't get to the bearing. The seal gets lubed with the coolant/antifreeze/anticorrosion, if the car sits for years often the shaft the seal sits on corrodes causing the seal to leak. Coolant will eventually get into the sealed bearing which destroys it pretty quick.
Never mind that! - more importantly, will engine oil work as vegetable oil?!
LOL! The detergents are very bad.
I'd say that would be a funny april fools joke, but I bet somebody would take it seriously
Nothing quite like French 🍟 Fries, with that hydro-carbon flavor.
These fries taste like a farm truck😂😂
+jandastroy In a world where people eat tide pods, nothing seems to be off the table anymore
I'd love to see this with a bunch of various oil stabilizers added. Lucas, liquid molly, seafoam, etc.
Nice work
Thanks! Thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you for putting temperatures in Celsius as well it helps for us in the British colonies great videos
Thanks for the feedback.
You, sir, are a true scientist! Thank you!
Thanks
Todd
Thank you for another entertaining video. Keep up the good work. Excellent Editing.
General repair
General Repair, Thank you for the positive comment!
I did the same test back in the early 90s and found the same results. The stuff worked.
The only thing we found is that after the engine sat for an extended period of time, the valves were gummed up and the small end of the rod barely moved on the wrist PIN. Solidification of the fats? I don't know.
I guess seafoam would flush that out anyway.
Put some petrol in the vegetable oil (5-15%) it stops the vegetable oil from any sort of solidifying.
Thank You Project Farm I’ve Been Waiting On this Test 😀😃😀 I’m Glad You Put it thru The Tests And On The Bearing It Seemed as It Performed Well And It Looked Like it Worked Equally As Well in the Engine Slight Amount Of Sludge On The Head n Piston Crown but Considering it was Ran For an Hour Nothing That Bad Thanks So Much Project Farm Keep Up The Awesome Videos Well Keep Watching 😀👍🏼😎👍🏼
Thank you!
I sold a new Toro to a Church that had a briggs engine and they put olive oil in it and yup it blew up good. I had the briggs rep look at it and he wouldnt replace the engine and the Paster swore up and down that they put oil in the unit. At the time I was doing work for Ammoco BP now . So I sent some of the oil to the refinery to have a test done with their mass spectrometer. Those guys lauged so hard when I told them the story they didn't charge me for the test because I was doing it for the church. Then the next time the briggs rep came by I gave him the the print out from the test he faxed it to Briggs and they bought the engine for the chuch because I had proved that they did put oil in the unit. It worked fine for one summer until they decided to change the oil.
Thanks for commenting on this.
Yeah, Olive would no fair very well, cause it has a low flash point compared to other edible oils and breaks down easier than they do. It's one of the healthiest oils to use, but not durable, lol. Good to know though, I was curious about that.
There are vegetable based oils that could do very well as compared to olive oil. In Terry Dyson's extensive testing and analysis of 226 motor oils, a vegetable based one made by a company called Renewable Lubricants did extremely well and ranked 3rd highest in the straight out of the bottle category (he tested some oil and extra additive combos as well).
Hence, vegetable based oil could do very well if the right kind, rightly processed, and has the right additives (as pretty much all oils made and sold now, have various additives to help improve their performance, longevity, temp stability, oxidation levels, etc).
Probably Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Wait why would the rep replace an engine damaged by olive oil
Heck, yeah! Now we're talking!
Thank you!
Hey project farm guy! I love your videos and I think they’re super useful, so thank you and keep making them! I was wondering if there is any video of how the lubricity tester works if there is no oil at all, I think that would be a great example on how much wear it can cause with no oil. Thank you!
Thank you
Could you try straight up water??? Pure H2O?
many years ago, a race car driver at the Indy 500 used water as a substitute for oil during a pitstop as he was not allowed to add anything but water, and still won the race. I think it was in the '30s
Wow!
stacy gardner . Makes sense to me. I do a lot of drilling on tower structural steel and discovered by desperation that plain water dribbled or sprayed continuously keeps my broaches and drill bits sharp longer and better than cutting oils and doesn’t make a slippery dangerous mess on the tower . Just keeping them cool is apparently all that is needed .
Water added to the crankcase?
I read about this before. The race regulations had a limit of how much of each fluid you could add during the race. He had surpassed his quota on oil so threw in the water as it was available and not over limit.
Water is the fastest way to spin the bearings.
YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
Thank you! I hope you enjoy the video.
I’ve always wondered. Thanks for the great video!!
Thank you!
I would really love to see you put that in a fairly modern car say 2000 and up like Toyota and run it around town for a while to see how long it would last. Please..
Thank you!
@Bill Williams ur just mad toyotas are better than your fucked over rebuilt dodge
Have been running a 1998 V70 Volvo 5 cyl 20 valve 2.5 litre motor ok with Aldi vegetable oil, seems happier than normal. It has got 300000 KMs on it and has been smoking a bit when the oil gets low. As it is using about 2 litres oil per 100 litres petrol, I figure it might as well be treated like a 2 stroke lawnmower.
@@longflare How many liters is that per 5000 km?
"Honey I need a liter of canola oil!!"
"Kinky...😉 "
"Damnit women. I need to cut the lawn. It's an emergency!!!"
No
Canola oil lasts a lot longer than soy oil. It should actually work.
OK NOW PLEASE USE MELTED LARD AS an oil substitute !!!
Thank you for this recommendation.
Dude r u Brandon Allen the power lifter??!!!
Alfonso Bernabe WHAT ???
Mmmmm, french fries.....
Top gear usa they used lard syrup and ky jelly in there cars
I have been already applying veg oil as 20% additive along with the regular engine oil for about a year to my vehicle (car and motobike), i feel this formulas has been increasing power and acceleration of my vehicles and also the engine sound more calm soft and the temperature is more having stability..
And another result that suprising me is when i opened the engine cover , the whole engine part and the metal is so clean and shiny..😃
Thanks for the feedback.
What about bacon grease
Thank you for this recommendation!
Project Farm I've always wondered what would it do to a motor
Tanner Warren
Lol mom used to keep a jar of it in the fridge for cooking.
I’d figure if ya just warm it up good, pour it in and let it rip!
Corn fed pigs have a thicker lard vs our free range pigs (fed grain other than corn) . At room temp its still liquid while commercial hogs it would be solid. something to think about
After viewing the video. Well, I'm extremely surprised! Your engine ran for 1 hour without noticeable damage. And I'm amazed at the lubricity test! To sum up, the test didn't work as I'd expected. In an emergency situation, vegetable oil could replace the engine oil of your car, but of course, just a few miles and keeping the RPM moderate...
Great assessment. The vegetable oil will leave a messy residue inside of an engine. So, an oil change directly after using it would be wise. Thanks again.
Baby oil works too
Great video with a practical engine test instead of some lab comparison! Thank you! Some suggestions, if you ever re-do it:
1. before-and-after comparisons could show pictures after running it with vegetable oil vs. picture after running it with mineral oil. The vegetable oil vs. clean-scrubbed piston crown does not yield much useful information and may make any oil look bad.
2. Rapeseed oil is the traditional steam engine lubricant so reasonably is the best oil to start with. It has the property of adhering to both wet and dry metals.
Thanks for the suggestion.
During WW2 rapeseed oil also known as Canola oil was extensively used as lubricant in substitution of petroleum based oil.
Thanks for the feedback.
Can you try raising the compression significantly with jb weld filler on the head and piston to try to run the motor on gas, and on diesel with no spark plug. I have seen boxer motors with extremely high compression run gasoline with no spark plugs. I have also seen them run on diesel.
Thank you for this recommendation.
Nice test, interesting to see that the vegetable oil hasn't degraded after 1 hour.
Thank you!
mount an alternator to lawnmower engine either replacing the blades with a gear of some kind or using them as a flywheel and compare power output, charge capacity, & efficiency of it vs a name brand generator . direct drive alternator lol
Will olive oil work
Thank you for this recommendation!
That's pretty refined.
As an Iberian person... Not sure how I feel about it, because while it look like a waste of yummy tasty olive oil... Something on me just say "DO IT"! lol
I was thanking samething
I think olive oil has a relatively low burn temperature compared to other food oils, but I'm going from memory and could be wrong.
Ti M I have liters and liters of used olive oil... I wonder how well they would work! lmao!
Pretty cool that you made your own bearing tester, the first time I saw one was for a gun oil promotion.
I'm also fairly sure that most mechanically inclined guys have thought about this stuff.
I have always wondered if there is an additive that would enhance gasoline for more power &/or to go further?
I also vaguely remember hearing something about a scientist who developed an engine that ran on hydrogen from water, but possibly subverted by the fuel industry.
Any thoughts or comments?
Thanks for the educational videos.
Thank you for the video idea on HHO! I need to build an HHO setup.
I am amazed at the results of running vegetable oil in the crankcase, and that the engine lasted for an hour happy to see this test I suggested it ,thank you for your videos
Thank you!
You should see if liquid soap would work as oil
Thank you for this recommendation!
OH DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!!!! (sarcasm)
I think it will dry up quite fast. Try to scrub it in your hands without water, you will have your hands covered with sticky and hard residue
You should do gear oil next. I've always seen a similarity in the consistency of oil additives (like Lucas) and gear oil.
Thank you for this recommendation.
Drew L When i change the oil in my lawnmower i add some 80w-90 because only 10w-30 is thin as piss
Drew L I always add a little gear lube about a quart to all my truck 300 k on 2 motors so far
dirty roofer well I was walking through autozone the other day and saw a Lucas oil stabilizer display, that one with the gears that you crank and of course the gears with the Lucas have more oil coverage than the normal oil. At this moment i thought to myself hmm seems a lot like gear oil to me. I might throw some in my semi the next oil change and see if there is any noticeable difference, maybe it'll run a little smoother...who knows.
Drew L In the old days, used car lots would dump some 90w into the crankcase to stop engine knock or slow down leaking.
It works, but i don't think it's very good on the internals during cold starts.
Try some ky jelly or astroglide for engine lube. Good for friction but what about heat?
Thank you for this recommendation!
Sounds fun but all that might be expensive but I don’t have price knowledge on that
Kenric Sukalski I got a barrel in my basement for... activities and it’s not too bad at least for a lawnmower. Good ol fashion horse lube works just as well
I actually tried it in a vehicle mixed with motor oil. It worked for a time but the problem that arose was after being whipped around for so long the and heated and cooled so many times that it gummed up and became a solid.
Wow.. great job as always man. I was wondering about this same thing yesterday so it's cool to see this experiment be done.
Thank you!
I once used palm oil as 2 stroke oil for my lawn movers. The engine stuck after several mowing events
Wow! Thanks for commenting on this.
wow u really spending time to read all comments. Kudos to you sir
gummed up
On their own, vegetable oils could potentially work as lubricants. However, when mixed up with a mineral oil (most motor oils are based on these), they will produce nasty sludge. I believe this is what happened.
In the future I will run my machine on plants and frying oil.
This is now one of my favorite channels.
Thanks!
Stage 1 upgrade kit for Predator compared to a bone stock Predator. I recently did a stage 1 upgrade to my mud motor. I can tell it breathes easier with the upgrades. I know the EPA chokes these poor engines down and leans them out so much it's surprising that they run. I'd love to see a torture test comparing a bone stock Predator to a simple stage 1 Predator
Many of us building these mud motors are afraid to build too much, but the bone stock motor often run too lean. After sure long runs they won't crank. It'd be nice to have some kind of raw data like your torture test. Thanks!
Thank you for this recommendation!
Black Warrior Lures I have the bone stock and thanks for explaining that. I'm going to buy the stage one for my engine!
I'm doing my usual and voting yes........for a while. Anything slick will work but some not for very long. Thanks Much in advance for another good one Commander. Happys to you and yours!
Lewie, Always great seeing your reply! Thanks for watching the video and hope all is well with you and yours!
Fine so0 far and it looks like we might need to swap for some 15w40 Wesson instead of Delo or Valvoline! Thanks again, Commander. A-PLUS!
Commander? I thought it looked like you were in the military. I always wanted to ask, but didn't want to leave a comment unrelated to the video. I actually just got out of the Navy myself.
Russell Poyner Thank you for your service to our Country! My dad was LTC Full Time in the Texas Army National Guard. Was promoted to full Colonel posthumously after being killed by a drunk driver outside Denver, Colorado in 1987. Take Care & never take one moment with loved ones for granted.
BLESS YOU MY SON! The Commander was Air Force and I was Army RVN. Good to be home. AIN'T it!
Since Diesel and mineral white spirit feels oily... Can you test again the same way please! Maybe a cheap base plus a snake oil additive until the motor stops - (do bearing test after 1 hour)
Thank you for this recommendation!
Love how you get to the point.. Straight down to business.. 👍
Thank you!
That engine be like:
Am i joke to you bro???!!!
Lol
I think that oil flushed the engine
Great point!
I don't know, it was extremely gray.
a flush would indeed come out dirty, but then again, i think it just burned and left its own coating anyway
maybe
wow! wow! smoke! its me cj
There's a report by the Navy Research Lab from 1942 called P-1954 "Sabotage Agents for Use in Lubricants and Fuels". They tried mixing a bunch of things (drying oils, resins, corrosives), including vegetable oil, with gasoline and motor oil and running 24-hour tests. They didn't find anything that would do irreparable damage but a bunch of things they tried would gum up the engine so that it wouldn't start again after cooling and a few things that could cause the engine to seize after several hours.
I laughed out loud at 3:36
LOL! That was funny to see it happen in live.
TechMaster2133 glad to see I wasn’t the only one hahah
Run engine with hydrogen
Thank you for this recommendation!
It's pretty hard and expensive to get liquid hydrogen
The Wheelman hydrogen can be made with electrolysis, you just need a car battery
Antonio tod dissolve zink/aluminium in HCl or aluminium in NaOH(aq) ....
Hydrogen is quite accessable
Sounds like a decent idea.
"Renewable Lubricants Inc." interesting!
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Loved this video. Very informative and very well done. I have subscribed.
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In my country some motorcycle rider use cooking palm oil mix with 1/3 turbo diesel engine oil for drag racing, cooking oil viscosity is quite thin and lubes as good as 5w30 eo, motorcycle with wet clutch need a thicker oil to avoid clutch slipping, so to get the best lube without going for higher viscosity oil they came up with their own recipe its kinda weird but it works.
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G,Day Mate i watched an old war 11 movie sub,s where the engine man put whiskey into the diesel to get 300 more RPM,s will a diesel with whiskey in it .Thanks from down under.
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goldwingman1500 it’s ethanol, basically. It’s used in gasoline engines all the time. A little would help the diesel flow better, too much would blow the engine!
Thats awesome, like other people have said baby oil. What about vegetable oil for 2cycle oil sub
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I thank that be cool to watch
Vegetable oil in a 2 stroke is a bad idea. I would only do that if my life depended on it. Vegetable oil cannot burn, or even vaporize completely at gasoline engine internal temperatures. It will leave vegetable gunk on absolutely everything in the motor. With proper oil later it should clean out, but maybe not before scuffing and scoring the living daylights out of that motor.
If memory serves, there where some commercially available Bean oils, used for 2 smoke mixes.
Castor oil is used in RC Nitro applications, but those little 2 strokers are designed very differently from your chain saw motor. They do not use piston rings, and the castor wax improves compression as a result, whereas in a larger 2-stroke motor with piston rings you'll lose compression from fouling the rings.
You did this video 3 years ago, this is the first I seen it, and what do I think? Great as always! I will get to see all you're videos after awhile, it might take me awhile but it is well worth it!!
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Now try coconut oil. It's all the rage in the health food industry right now. Kidding of course. It's solid at room temperature, so I imagine it would be about useless.
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in its liquid state its extremely thin too!
You could warm it up in a container filled and kept separated by it being in another container with hot water so that its fully liquid. Then pour it in and give it a try. but I dont think it would be anywhere near as good as vegetable oil or canola oil.
its superrrrr thin and runny as soon as it becomes liquid.
Can you use Laundry detergent as motor oil?
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Dollar Tree motor oil. You should definitely test that stuff.
Urgh. I saw the virgin oil analysis for Dollar General's Non Detergent Straight 30 (tested in 2011 or so) and it was a vastly out of date oil; good for about 1932. I don't imagine Dollar Tree's gonna be a lot better.
@@101Volts dollar tree oil says its a synthetic blend.
I think that might be the exact model of mower i used to use when I was nine years old to mow out quarter acre lawn! Great machine
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I predict we will be learning about polymerization soon
LOL! Great point.
I was an elevator mechanic by trade...40 years of it. Toward the end of my career some companies switched their hydraulic oil to a bio degradable vegetable based fluid. (BIG selling point and VERY expensive) The oil stayed in the 80 tp 100 degree area and....being biodegradable... there was all kinds of odd looking things that grew in that oil! floating around! I had it tested and never received a straight answer......maybe an engine would keep it hot enough to kill off the nasties....or we hope so
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Thanx!!! That's what I ment, "in a case of emergency" I also heard you can use diesel fuel for a short time...
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could you run diesel as engine oil?
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Not for long, one of the main causes of bearing failures on old two stroke GM diesels was fuel dilution of the crankcase oil, GM engines had the fuel lines internal to the valve covers, any fuel leaks went into the oil pan.
Diesel fuel is very similar to Kerosene (Jet Fuel) it's a great solvent.
whorayful It can catch fire or make the engine go berserk
Back in the 30s-50s, this wasn't uncommon to do for a few minutes in order to clean engines out every so often; the old oil gunked up considerably. Maybe I'm mistaking it with kerosene, though.
Austin Lucas Just at idle tho, if you do this for more than like 5 minutes it can boil and catch fire.
Could you please try this with a 2 stroke engine
I want that video to
Diesel-Gas-Mix as 2-Stroke Fuel
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10/10 would recommend! If it weren't for winter. Amazed by the film strenght. Damn...
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"let's see how well it flows". ...............................*flop.
Was it just me or did the used vegoil look like it had silver shavings in it?
It may have. It's the same engine used with WD40.
was definitely full of metal.
I thought the same
It looked exactly like the oil from the transmission of my two-stroke motorcycle. In the case of my motorcycle, the clutch runs in the oil so it gets pretty dirty.
Yes but these dont have internal clutches.
Man, older lawnmowers probably shiver, shrieks and run away in sheer panic when they spot you .... ;)
They used castor oil in aircraft engines before and during WW1. It still is a good lubricant - being a vegetable oil.
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And to think we actually eat that stuff.
In this application it picks up whatever might have been in the engine, I.E. what's left of the old motor oil, carbon, etc. Excessive oil consumption still isn't great though.
Cars contain iron, you know that right?🤭
I had a 1964 chevy and it burned 1 qt of oil in 35 miles, to work and back. lots of smoke. One day I put Lestoil to possibly clean the sludge out and stop some of the oil burning. I had the sweetest smelling car on the road. Ran it with Lestoil for a hundred miles and drained it out. Put Gulf 40 wt in and it didn't help. It was fun to do though. The Lestoil barely drained through the drain plug. Cleaned a lot of sludge out. Rebuilt the engine shortly after and it was very clean in that crankcase.
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