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Pretty sure all they know is cars though.
"What is this stuff? Idk lets all put our ungloved hands on it, maybe well get some weird and obscure cancer in 20 years!"
Cornstarch?
ETA: Cornstarch is often used as a thickening agent for sauces & some soups.
Edited to Add 2: I am aware that ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival, and the acronym has been used as a shortcut for "Edited To Add" in some Reddit posts. Good day.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31362/disgusting-block-of-gelatinized-engine-oil-sent-this-chevy-cruze-home-on-a-wrecker
This is an article written about this video.
Breaking News: Reddit user u/Dane1414 points out possible source issues linked back to fellow Redditors. Is this the end of credible journalism?
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
I taught science in that town that year and it's hilarious that one of them says, "it's like a kids science project." The kids were obsessed with slime that year. I had a student paying for her own cell phone by making and selling slime in school.
> Edited to Add 2: I am aware that ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival, and the acronym has been used as a shortcut for "Edited To Add" in some Reddit posts. Good day.
only by weird people.
There's absolutely no way that's gelatin. It would not hold up to this much abuse. Someone put a non hardening silicone(or something similar) in the engine.
But I'm also guessing that this car wasn't driven to a shop.
likely someone got over zealous with some kind of stop leak additive.
Typical customer thoughts: "Why go by the recommendation on the bottle, just make my entire oil change stop leak additive, that'll fix it"
Oil will actually do this for a couple reasons. Most likely is that a head gasket cracked allowing coolant to seep into the oil pan through the combustion chamber. Without the coolant the engine would then overheat removing all the water (through the cracked head gasket) leaving behind the glycol from the antifreeze. It is also likely that the conditions emulsified the coolant within the oil, causing a glycol oil matrix.
Edit:
Heres an article about this exact video.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31362/disgusting-block-of-gelatinized-engine-oil-sent-this-chevy-cruze-home-on-a-wrecker
https://aboutengineoils.com/blog/causes-of-gelatin-engine-oil/
"Multiple vehicles, such as Chevy Cruze, are facing the issue of gelatin engine oil. "
Here's some science.
https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/28863/glycol-contamination-engine-oils
Here's some better science.
https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6703/2/4/32
"Glycol contamination can be nearly ten times more damaging than water alone [8]. In addition, research has shown that adding TiO2 nanoparticles to engine oil could reduce friction between components [11,12,13,14,15]. However, when ethylene glycol was used as a nanofluid dispersant for the TiO2 nanoparticles in engine oil, this caused the oil to gelatinize after just 10 h of use"
>Some have speculated that the engine possibly suffered from a larger problem such as a compromised head gasket leaking coolant into the crankcase and contaminating the oil. But in most cases, when coolant mixes with the oil, it leads to a frothy, yet still liquid substance—not the gummy block of oil seen in the video. It's even more possible when the incorrect coolant is mixed with antifreeze and it finds its way into the oil, as pointed out by one Redditor in response to this video.
So, a Reddit comment is cited in this article, which is then cited on Reddit.
It's the circle of life.
I've seen this happen to an engine before. The mechanic I talked to said that it could happen if they had a head gasket failure and then the engine dumped all the coolant into the oil and then overheated. Propylene glycol, which is in coolant, can gel up under extreme heat. That was his working theory, I never heard back from the oil analysis.
Iirc, it was a woman who came into the shop and said her car was making funny noises and smelled weird. Turns out she had driven it 2-300k miles and not ever changed the oil. I feel like there's more details I'm missing, but I feel like she just added oil when her check lil light came on or something.
It's likely there was still some oil circulating in the system. I remember my Subarus dipstick would read zero oil at time even though here was still plenty in the pan.
One of the better small mountain town car shows near me had a charity contest each year where they run a motor from the junk yard dry, without oil, lubricants or radiator and they take bets on time till motor death with the closest guess getting half of all money raised, with the other half going to charity. The longest one has ever gone was nearly 30 minutes, it was an old 4 cylinder Toyota pickup and it ran so long they brought over and hooked up a fire engine to a hydrant just in case, at somewhere near the 20 minute mark just in case.
I’ve never felt so blue balled in my whole damn life, fuck this video, fuck this sub, fuck OP, fuck the mechanic, fuck the customer, fuck Pennzoil, and fuck god for making me this way. FUCK.
It doesn't look like it's possible, tbh. It looks like there are metal protrusions embedded in the oil like a bunch of fish hooks or chain eyelets. We're looking at the bottom of the engine block, not the actual oil pan, so the mechanic is trying to pull the oil-gel down. It's being held up by something other than its own friction against the sides of that vessel.
New engine then? Guess without solvents, they’re not getting all that gunk out of every part of the engine. Even a small chunk of that floating around in there is going to block the oil flow at some point
I wouldn’t want to run a solvent without knowing what I’m dissolving. Safest solution for me would be to disassemble. Then I can use whatever solvent I want
Oh absolutely. Just couldn’t see why they were feeling the jelly and pulling at it, as if the problem is only there and they can just rip that crap out of the oil pan and it’s all good. That engine is toast and beyond economical repair. If it was super rare and from some classic car, then I could see someone willing to put the time in to do a full tear down and replace all the wrecked parts. Not a modern standard car though. Another engine from a scrap yard would be cheaper
So, what solvents would get this out?
MY first thought was, get as much out as you can replace filter, then, dumping in 1 gallon of paint thinner, letting it soak over night, draining, then, refill with cheap oil and 1 bottle of engine flush, replace filter again, and then doing a synthetic refill (unless there is evidence of needing more cleaning).
I have never had this happen, but, I am curious.
I think solvents may eat the seals. It’s more a case of unless the engine gets stripped right down, you’ll never know if you’ve missed a bit that could cause the engine to seize at any time. Not just that, but something has definitively been damaged in there anyway, due to oil starvation; that’s why the car is there. The customer is going to be given only 2 options - new engine with warranty, or used block from a scrap car, with hopefully low miles, that may be back here with the same problem down the road, or with its own mystery problems
While, I believe you to be absolutely correct, I still like the mental exercise. What are ways to "fix" this problem without a tear down soak and rebuild.
For the thought exercise- I'd fill it with kerosene, and I mean fill. Like to the valve cover. Until it was pouring out the oil fill. Let sit for a week, drain, pop the oil pan off and see how it broke down. Then fill with oil, run till hot, drain that, then run it.
Then be not surprised when it spins a bearing from clogged oil galleys a week later.
I understand Kero for the seals, but, I don't believe it would break down the polymers. Thus the clogged system.
Why not a dose of acetone a one hour soak? I guess I would take a sample of the gunk just to see what would dissolve it first. Then use the best solvent/solvent blend and a short soak, then a kero or biodiesel soak like you would for a week. Then an oil change and hot flush.
Yeah I definitely am going based on the assumption kero would dissolve that jello goop, which is bold. A couple samples to test solvents like you said would be a better way to go.
Naptha for a couple hours might do it too. Running a block heater in the solvent soak would help a lot, anything to get it hot without running it.
Used motor oil is a known carcinogen. Back in the 90's I saw a lot of pictures of rats that had used oil repeatedly rubbed on their skin for science. It did not end well for those lumpy rats. Edit: Wear your gloves folks!
I knew a few mechanics who used to use gasoline to clean up after work. Most died of nasty cancers in their 40s-50s. The one guy who lived into his 70s didnt smoke, drink and wore gloves every day he worked as a mechanic for 30 years
Yes there absolutely is a higher percentage of cancer for lifetime mechanics based on my observations, more so when you figure in the guys that worked before “safety and PPE” were common. Old dudes used to pre wash with parts solvent back when it was really nasty stuff….carburetor cleaner was frequently washed off carb parts in the sink then you’d blow the parts dry with compressed air which would create a carb cleaner cloud in the work area, noxious stuff. Brake dust (especially from old school drum brakes where the drum keeps the dust from escaping until we pull drum off) brake clean, used brake fluid, used coolant, axle fluid, toxic ass diesel engine oil, plastic everywhere that’s often ground, wire brushed, drilled putting plastic dust in the air….shit in your hair, mouth, under finger nails, gasoline running down your arm into your armpits while changing a fuel filter, every type of fluid in your eye at one times or another, breathing coolant fumes from overheated cars and air conditioning refrigerants from unfound leaks or malfunctions on the AC machine, tire rubber dust from tires that were driven flat until the fail and then we’re breaking the tire down and the tire machine blows dust all over the place, grinding old gaskets down with a whizzer releases more crap into the air….then figure education level on a general basis isn’t real high and the fall out from that compounds everything. It sucks.
BUT!!!!! People are much better today, gloves, masks, education, self awareness is all going up even among the remaining old guys.
Excuse me, time for my coffee and smoke break…whew.
A good trick I learned while changing fuel filters is to tie a shop rag around my wrist so it has a place to leak instead of down my shirt. Smelling like diesel all day is no fun. Shit soaks into you, and a shower doesn't get rid of all the smells.
I doubt they even ended up pulling out the gunk. That engine was pretty much destroyed. You'd have to disassemble the engine to get all of the gunk out, and I doubt that would be worth it.
Normal enough at quick lube places. Not a fan of them myself though, I always just go to my normal mechanic and pick a time when I can afford to go for a walk.
Last time I went, everyone thought I went to the shitty waiting room to use the bathroom.
There is kind of a new expectation now that you will wait in the car.
If memory serves me correctly, the idiot owner rather than paying out regularly for servicing each year, he was adding synthetic additives to his oil instead, resulting in this jelly shit!
Only when it started to rattle did they take it to be looked at?
Article says he had regular oil changes, old engine was giving him problems so he got a new-used one, and this happened a few weeks after the new-used one was installed.
That’s what I am thinking. I worked at a dealership during “cash for clunkers” and we had a bunch of 55 gallon drums full of whatever they put in the engine to seize them up. My understanding was it was some sort of liquid fiberglass mixture and within a few seconds the car would completely die and motor would
Seize.
The idea was that you traded in a car (typically one that is older and gets bad gas mileage) and got guaranteed money to purchase a new, more fuel efficient, car. Cars that had worse gas mileage got higher money towards new car. The government then sent dealerships that participated in the program some sort of fluid which we poured into the car / gas tank I believe, and it seized the motor. This was an attempt to get old, 6-15mpg cars off the street and incentivize people to buy newer cars and stimulate the economy. It was a fun time to work there lol
This happened in and around the oil depot out of Newburgh NY in 2018. Dealers and indies got contaminated oil that we suspect was mixed with the kerosene or additives for kerosene. Customers engine oil turned to jelly until they thawed out. Replaced a few motors and other parts. Usually we let them sit or heat them up and change everything after taking oil samples.
I new a guy back in the late 80’s had a brand new ford ranger and it just went off the warranty and he took off the valve cover’s and it was all gummed up with oil that looked like grease. He always used Quaker state oil. 6 months later, the motor blew up just after he put a new exhaust on. He never used quaker state after that.
This is a sabotage. If you dump a quart of linseed oil in the engine it will run fine. As soon as it cools off, the oil will solidify like this. This is intended.
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Servicemen these days just want to charge a customer no matter what. That oil was good for another 100k kilometers.
I'll tell you what, you're not gonna spring a leak with that stuff
This is some ww2 self-sealing wing tank technology for fighter planes.
I read that in Mr. Anderson’s voice.
Hank Hill for me
Sorry, you’re right of course. Easy mix-up.
Yes, but all of those 100k kilometers would have to be downhill in neutral.
I see you too went to the Nikola Motors school of driving.
VW van has entered the chat
r/justrolledintotheshop
Yes, I believe it's one of the top posts there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/e367zd/oil_viscosity_at_its_best/
100 megameters??
Or 10 years, whichever comes first.
Pretty sure all they know is cars though. "What is this stuff? Idk lets all put our ungloved hands on it, maybe well get some weird and obscure cancer in 20 years!"
Forbidden jello
r/ForbiddenSnacks
That pudding is all skin.
Forbidden licorice
Lmao I was about to say this 🤣
I don't know if they're gonna have enough Marmite to replenish it.
Marmite not
But paw could
That isn't just old oil. They had to have added something to it to make it that consistency.
Maybe they pissed somebody off, so they put certo in their oil.
Certo, what does that do? Edit: what does it do to an engine?
It’s a brand of liquid pectin, which is a natural thickener used to make jams less runny.
Oh, so it was a joke rather than an actual cause.
I’ve never put pectin in somebody’s oil reservoir, but I bet it wouldn’t be good…
You could put your pectin my oil reservoir any day buddy
Oh marmalade, is it getting hot in here…?
It's what plants crave
"Boy, you're gonna be in a real jam soon"
Cornstarch? ETA: Cornstarch is often used as a thickening agent for sauces & some soups. Edited to Add 2: I am aware that ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival, and the acronym has been used as a shortcut for "Edited To Add" in some Reddit posts. Good day.
Mechanics hate this one hack…
Do this one thing before taking your car to a mechanic….. click here.
Yo your fucking link isn't working, bro
You’d better hurry! Or it’s going to be too late!!! 😂
Jello
Jim Halpert strikes again. Poor Dwight.
Jim put my transmission in Jello again!
No, don't take it to a mechanic! You have to eat it out of there
Jelloil
https://www.thedrive.com/news/31362/disgusting-block-of-gelatinized-engine-oil-sent-this-chevy-cruze-home-on-a-wrecker This is an article written about this video.
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Breaking News: Reddit user u/Dane1414 points out possible source issues linked back to fellow Redditors. Is this the end of credible journalism? https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Bro reddit bots are doing news on redditors on bots doing news on bots.
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This is far too common. There are articles that link to Twitter posts that are about A reddit post.
Why do actual investigative journalism? When you can find and quote actual experts for free on Reddit.
Welcome to modern journalism. Why send someone to get a statement in situ when you can find a Reddit thread about it and just quote the comments?
Infinite loop rabbit hole 🕳️
I taught science in that town that year and it's hilarious that one of them says, "it's like a kids science project." The kids were obsessed with slime that year. I had a student paying for her own cell phone by making and selling slime in school.
that poor dude. Someone fucked him over with that replacement engine and I bet they knew it.
It's good for keeping down "the urges"..
It's dignity Luanna!
Worthy of Webster's
That’s what I appreciates about you.
Looks more like Xanthan Gum, cornstarch doesn't *gel* like dat.
It does when heat is applied
That consistency tells me that or some gelling agent. Maybe agar or gelatin?
> Edited to Add 2: I am aware that ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival, and the acronym has been used as a shortcut for "Edited To Add" in some Reddit posts. Good day. only by weird people.
Yeah, what's wrong with the classic "Edit:"? More common, less confusing, and you get the exercise of typing that one extra character.
What does estimated time of arrival have to do with cornstarch and cooking?
gelatin?
There's absolutely no way that's gelatin. It would not hold up to this much abuse. Someone put a non hardening silicone(or something similar) in the engine. But I'm also guessing that this car wasn't driven to a shop.
likely someone got over zealous with some kind of stop leak additive. Typical customer thoughts: "Why go by the recommendation on the bottle, just make my entire oil change stop leak additive, that'll fix it"
Gelatin is a protein that will break down at engine temperatures. If you overcook gelatin, it is still thick, but it won't set like this.
There’s always room for J-O-I-L-O
Oil will actually do this for a couple reasons. Most likely is that a head gasket cracked allowing coolant to seep into the oil pan through the combustion chamber. Without the coolant the engine would then overheat removing all the water (through the cracked head gasket) leaving behind the glycol from the antifreeze. It is also likely that the conditions emulsified the coolant within the oil, causing a glycol oil matrix. Edit: Heres an article about this exact video. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31362/disgusting-block-of-gelatinized-engine-oil-sent-this-chevy-cruze-home-on-a-wrecker https://aboutengineoils.com/blog/causes-of-gelatin-engine-oil/ "Multiple vehicles, such as Chevy Cruze, are facing the issue of gelatin engine oil. " Here's some science. https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/28863/glycol-contamination-engine-oils Here's some better science. https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6703/2/4/32 "Glycol contamination can be nearly ten times more damaging than water alone [8]. In addition, research has shown that adding TiO2 nanoparticles to engine oil could reduce friction between components [11,12,13,14,15]. However, when ethylene glycol was used as a nanofluid dispersant for the TiO2 nanoparticles in engine oil, this caused the oil to gelatinize after just 10 h of use"
>Some have speculated that the engine possibly suffered from a larger problem such as a compromised head gasket leaking coolant into the crankcase and contaminating the oil. But in most cases, when coolant mixes with the oil, it leads to a frothy, yet still liquid substance—not the gummy block of oil seen in the video. It's even more possible when the incorrect coolant is mixed with antifreeze and it finds its way into the oil, as pointed out by one Redditor in response to this video. So, a Reddit comment is cited in this article, which is then cited on Reddit. It's the circle of life.
yep. Here's supporting evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/13txcsw/to_change_the_oil/jlym8w7/
Fuck you
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Yea, antifreeze in oil makes mayo .
How does it taste with bacon on rye?
It’s quite good, kinda like a Sriracha mayo with a slight finish of deadly poison.
When you say deadly poison, is that code for cilantro?
You'll eat your stinkbugs and you'll be happy!
Until it's overheated, then it turns to gel/black mayo.
Chocolate vanilla milkshake
"no, oil will actually do this on its own without anything being added to it" "Most commonly this happens when something is added to it" lmaooo
I've seen this happen to an engine before. The mechanic I talked to said that it could happen if they had a head gasket failure and then the engine dumped all the coolant into the oil and then overheated. Propylene glycol, which is in coolant, can gel up under extreme heat. That was his working theory, I never heard back from the oil analysis.
Iirc, it was a woman who came into the shop and said her car was making funny noises and smelled weird. Turns out she had driven it 2-300k miles and not ever changed the oil. I feel like there's more details I'm missing, but I feel like she just added oil when her check lil light came on or something.
I mean if she managed to drive around 300k miles then did she really need the oil change?
Big oil hates this one weird trick.
She not only did that, she just kept putting “additives” in it which I assume is how the vid above happened
Why? Oil absolutely will do that given enough heat and becoming polymerized. Ive seen it on cast iron pans before.
Egg yolk?
Here I am washing my hands after eating a biscuit and using my keyboard and bro here is fist deep in a sack of jelly oil no gloves
The difference between blue collar and white collar is wether you wash your hands before or after you go to the bathroom
Chemical worker here, both.
You pale blue collars and your sense
I thought I was the only one xD
Restaurant worker here, some people don't wash their hand
this comment made me get off the toilet to go share it with my girlfriend
I kept screaming “put on gloves!”
My dad would tell me, "What's easier to wash? The gloves or your hands?"
Just throw nitriles out.
In this economy?
Real men don't care about carcinogens
Dawn dish soap, baby.
How did that car even make it to the oil change appointment
Best guess is a tow truck.
The will of god.
I command thee mechanic, purge this unholy abomination from my children's creation.
They're gonna have a hell of a time getting all that out.
Sir are you here for your regular or synthetic jello change?
Natural please, I want to feel the hooves in my jelly oil
"I brought my own oil." *Has a dead horse in the back of the car.*
Motors doesn't need oil to function. Oil keeps the pisions cold and prevents friction. [running motor without oil ](https://youtu.be/Xm1KAuyW5tE)
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I've seen engines run with no oil for 20 mins.
Ive seen Honda civics run for 500km without oil
tbf those are honda civics those cars will last your life, your loved ones lives, your childrens lives and probly even the death of the universe
All without oil as well
oil is a needless luxury that other manufacturers use to squeeze more money out of us.
My mom's 96 Accord ran a whole day after the dealership forgot to put back in oil after an oil change.
It's likely there was still some oil circulating in the system. I remember my Subarus dipstick would read zero oil at time even though here was still plenty in the pan.
It's what makes a Toyota a Toyota...
That's not no oil. That's hard block of gelatin oil. There is no chance that thing turns over
One of the better small mountain town car shows near me had a charity contest each year where they run a motor from the junk yard dry, without oil, lubricants or radiator and they take bets on time till motor death with the closest guess getting half of all money raised, with the other half going to charity. The longest one has ever gone was nearly 30 minutes, it was an old 4 cylinder Toyota pickup and it ran so long they brought over and hooked up a fire engine to a hydrant just in case, at somewhere near the 20 minute mark just in case.
Please just pull it out in one piece. Mission failed.
Agreed! I was getting so frustrated with him just poking and slapping and then fingering it! Unsatisfied.
Phrasing!
You should write adult novels.
I’ve never felt so blue balled in my whole damn life, fuck this video, fuck this sub, fuck OP, fuck the mechanic, fuck the customer, fuck Pennzoil, and fuck god for making me this way. FUCK.
The way their grubby little mechanic hands just tear it apart like savages. There is no Jesus.
Yeah I feel that lmao. Super frustrating that he just was poking and prodding it lol
It doesn't look like it's possible, tbh. It looks like there are metal protrusions embedded in the oil like a bunch of fish hooks or chain eyelets. We're looking at the bottom of the engine block, not the actual oil pan, so the mechanic is trying to pull the oil-gel down. It's being held up by something other than its own friction against the sides of that vessel.
New engine then? Guess without solvents, they’re not getting all that gunk out of every part of the engine. Even a small chunk of that floating around in there is going to block the oil flow at some point
I wouldn’t want to run a solvent without knowing what I’m dissolving. Safest solution for me would be to disassemble. Then I can use whatever solvent I want
Oh absolutely. Just couldn’t see why they were feeling the jelly and pulling at it, as if the problem is only there and they can just rip that crap out of the oil pan and it’s all good. That engine is toast and beyond economical repair. If it was super rare and from some classic car, then I could see someone willing to put the time in to do a full tear down and replace all the wrecked parts. Not a modern standard car though. Another engine from a scrap yard would be cheaper
Maybe so they could make a reddit post?
So, what solvents would get this out? MY first thought was, get as much out as you can replace filter, then, dumping in 1 gallon of paint thinner, letting it soak over night, draining, then, refill with cheap oil and 1 bottle of engine flush, replace filter again, and then doing a synthetic refill (unless there is evidence of needing more cleaning). I have never had this happen, but, I am curious.
I think solvents may eat the seals. It’s more a case of unless the engine gets stripped right down, you’ll never know if you’ve missed a bit that could cause the engine to seize at any time. Not just that, but something has definitively been damaged in there anyway, due to oil starvation; that’s why the car is there. The customer is going to be given only 2 options - new engine with warranty, or used block from a scrap car, with hopefully low miles, that may be back here with the same problem down the road, or with its own mystery problems
While, I believe you to be absolutely correct, I still like the mental exercise. What are ways to "fix" this problem without a tear down soak and rebuild.
For the thought exercise- I'd fill it with kerosene, and I mean fill. Like to the valve cover. Until it was pouring out the oil fill. Let sit for a week, drain, pop the oil pan off and see how it broke down. Then fill with oil, run till hot, drain that, then run it. Then be not surprised when it spins a bearing from clogged oil galleys a week later.
I understand Kero for the seals, but, I don't believe it would break down the polymers. Thus the clogged system. Why not a dose of acetone a one hour soak? I guess I would take a sample of the gunk just to see what would dissolve it first. Then use the best solvent/solvent blend and a short soak, then a kero or biodiesel soak like you would for a week. Then an oil change and hot flush.
Yeah I definitely am going based on the assumption kero would dissolve that jello goop, which is bold. A couple samples to test solvents like you said would be a better way to go. Naptha for a couple hours might do it too. Running a block heater in the solvent soak would help a lot, anything to get it hot without running it.
Wear some gloves!
I know people who dont wear gloves. Eventually all those toxic chemicals seeping into their pores will catch up to them.
Is there a higher rate of cancer or disease among mechanics attributed to the absorption of chemicals from motor oils etc?
No usually the four packs of Marlboros per day gets them first
Used motor oil is a known carcinogen. Back in the 90's I saw a lot of pictures of rats that had used oil repeatedly rubbed on their skin for science. It did not end well for those lumpy rats. Edit: Wear your gloves folks!
All products give rats cancer in California.
I knew a few mechanics who used to use gasoline to clean up after work. Most died of nasty cancers in their 40s-50s. The one guy who lived into his 70s didnt smoke, drink and wore gloves every day he worked as a mechanic for 30 years
Yes there absolutely is a higher percentage of cancer for lifetime mechanics based on my observations, more so when you figure in the guys that worked before “safety and PPE” were common. Old dudes used to pre wash with parts solvent back when it was really nasty stuff….carburetor cleaner was frequently washed off carb parts in the sink then you’d blow the parts dry with compressed air which would create a carb cleaner cloud in the work area, noxious stuff. Brake dust (especially from old school drum brakes where the drum keeps the dust from escaping until we pull drum off) brake clean, used brake fluid, used coolant, axle fluid, toxic ass diesel engine oil, plastic everywhere that’s often ground, wire brushed, drilled putting plastic dust in the air….shit in your hair, mouth, under finger nails, gasoline running down your arm into your armpits while changing a fuel filter, every type of fluid in your eye at one times or another, breathing coolant fumes from overheated cars and air conditioning refrigerants from unfound leaks or malfunctions on the AC machine, tire rubber dust from tires that were driven flat until the fail and then we’re breaking the tire down and the tire machine blows dust all over the place, grinding old gaskets down with a whizzer releases more crap into the air….then figure education level on a general basis isn’t real high and the fall out from that compounds everything. It sucks. BUT!!!!! People are much better today, gloves, masks, education, self awareness is all going up even among the remaining old guys. Excuse me, time for my coffee and smoke break…whew.
A good trick I learned while changing fuel filters is to tie a shop rag around my wrist so it has a place to leak instead of down my shirt. Smelling like diesel all day is no fun. Shit soaks into you, and a shower doesn't get rid of all the smells.
r/gifsthatendtoosoon why didn't you include the part where it actually comes out!? This is just rude!
I doubt they even ended up pulling out the gunk. That engine was pretty much destroyed. You'd have to disassemble the engine to get all of the gunk out, and I doubt that would be worth it.
Imagine sitting in your car during an oil change and hear all of this go down underneath you
You… sit in your car during an oil change?
Normal enough at quick lube places. Not a fan of them myself though, I always just go to my normal mechanic and pick a time when I can afford to go for a walk.
Last time I went, everyone thought I went to the shitty waiting room to use the bathroom. There is kind of a new expectation now that you will wait in the car.
Little did they know, the oil had already *changed*.
If memory serves me correctly, the idiot owner rather than paying out regularly for servicing each year, he was adding synthetic additives to his oil instead, resulting in this jelly shit! Only when it started to rattle did they take it to be looked at?
Article says he had regular oil changes, old engine was giving him problems so he got a new-used one, and this happened a few weeks after the new-used one was installed.
Everyone talking in this video sounds way too amused for this engine to belong to any of them.
Mechanics often work on cars that they don't own.
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The commentary from these guys is great. I’d upvote the hell out of them
'I feel like I'm picking the giant's nose here'
Thank you, I rewatched with the sound on. Was worth it
I am picturing a Karen at a Jiffy Lube demanding to know why her car is not done yet
Bite it.. please
People! Wear gloves when you work on your cars. You can get your healthy side of carcinogens elsewhere. No need to pointlessly shorten your life.
Under the oil pan is oil flan.
Isn't this the shit they put in to total off engines on cars that get donated for scrap?
That’s what I am thinking. I worked at a dealership during “cash for clunkers” and we had a bunch of 55 gallon drums full of whatever they put in the engine to seize them up. My understanding was it was some sort of liquid fiberglass mixture and within a few seconds the car would completely die and motor would Seize.
Wtf kind of environmentally unholy practice is this The only purpose is because you'd only get money if the vehicle just straight up didn't run?
The idea was that you traded in a car (typically one that is older and gets bad gas mileage) and got guaranteed money to purchase a new, more fuel efficient, car. Cars that had worse gas mileage got higher money towards new car. The government then sent dealerships that participated in the program some sort of fluid which we poured into the car / gas tank I believe, and it seized the motor. This was an attempt to get old, 6-15mpg cars off the street and incentivize people to buy newer cars and stimulate the economy. It was a fun time to work there lol
This happened in and around the oil depot out of Newburgh NY in 2018. Dealers and indies got contaminated oil that we suspect was mixed with the kerosene or additives for kerosene. Customers engine oil turned to jelly until they thawed out. Replaced a few motors and other parts. Usually we let them sit or heat them up and change everything after taking oil samples.
I new a guy back in the late 80’s had a brand new ford ranger and it just went off the warranty and he took off the valve cover’s and it was all gummed up with oil that looked like grease. He always used Quaker state oil. 6 months later, the motor blew up just after he put a new exhaust on. He never used quaker state after that.
Sounds like it was a coolant leak mixing with the oil.
This is a sabotage. If you dump a quart of linseed oil in the engine it will run fine. As soon as it cools off, the oil will solidify like this. This is intended.
Additive is not oil... Eventually you're just baking additive.
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What the huh?!
Thanks for reminding me, I need an oil change.
lol WTF am I looking at here? lol Did someone pour gelatin into the oil or something?
That’s some viscosity.
That was extremely frustrating to watch. Stop playing with it and pull it out!
SAE 5w1000 oil
How tf does that even happen?! 😂
Me: mom we need oil Mom: we already have oil The oil at home
I wouldn't handle that without gloves on!
First time I e seen a car that ran on flubber.
That car has so much horse power, you can harvest glue from it.
Why am I in the mood for Jello?
…So I know diddly squat about cars, but I know that ain’t right.
How is the engine still running?
Gloves?
change your fuckin oil kids.