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minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍linkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoBut… it’ll most work, right? Hear me out: given a choice between running the engine completely dry of oil, and using vegetable oil, which would be worse? The vegetable oil is going to gum things up. I guess you’re looking at an engine replacement either way.
minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-22 months ago Hear me out: given a choice between running the engine completely dry of oil, and using vegetable oil, which would be worse? Given a choice between being impaled on a rusty fence and being shot, which would be worse? The vegetable oil is going to gum things up. I guess you’re looking at an engine replacement either way. Yup.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoMay the machine gods have pity on your bearings.
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍linkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months ago@Kecessa pointed us to a video of Project Farm checking it, and it turns out soy bean vegetable oil worked great, except in very cold conditions: https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek So, not so dumb. As long as she gets an oil change well before winter, she, and the engine, will probably be just fine.
minus-squaresnooggumslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoA lawnmower and a car use very different oils and running something for a short time is very different than under loads for extended periods of time. It is dumb to use cooking oils in a car engine.
minus-squareKecessa@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoProject farm tried it! https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍linkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoThat’s freaking awesome! Looks like what she was doing wasn’t so silly after all! This one trick the Big Engine Oil companies don’t want you to know about!
But… it’ll most work, right?
Hear me out: given a choice between running the engine completely dry of oil, and using vegetable oil, which would be worse?
The vegetable oil is going to gum things up. I guess you’re looking at an engine replacement either way.
Given a choice between being impaled on a rusty fence and being shot, which would be worse?
Yup.
May the machine gods have pity on your bearings.
@Kecessa pointed us to a video of Project Farm checking it, and it turns out soy bean vegetable oil worked great, except in very cold conditions:
https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek
So, not so dumb. As long as she gets an oil change well before winter, she, and the engine, will probably be just fine.
A lawnmower and a car use very different oils and running something for a short time is very different than under loads for extended periods of time.
It is dumb to use cooking oils in a car engine.
Project farm tried it!
https://youtu.be/sbPxLm21gek
That’s freaking awesome! Looks like what she was doing wasn’t so silly after all!
This one trick the Big Engine Oil companies don’t want you to know about!