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minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-21 month 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-squareHikingVetlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoMay the machine gods have pity on your bearings.
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 month 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-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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.
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.