Worst thing you've seen someone top up oil with?
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I must admit I have also used Gear Oil in a few different grades in an old Toyota that burned oil pretty badly. I only did it once as the smell was absolutely terrible. To add insult to injury I hate the smell of gear oil. It made no real difference to the rate at which it burned oil. That engine also saw cans of Restore (8 cylinder can in a 4cyl) STP and Wal-Mart brand copy of the same and Casite Motor Honey a few times. Funny enough it still runs just fine and still burns oil. I use it as my home town beater when I (rarely) get to take leave from the Navy.
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Originally Posted By: FlyNavyP3
I must admit I have also used Gear Oil in a few different grades in an old Toyota that burned oil pretty badly. I only did it once as the smell was absolutely terrible. To add insult to injury I hate the smell of gear oil. It made no real difference to the rate at which it burned oil. That engine also saw cans of Restore (8 cylinder can in a 4cyl) STP and Wal-Mart brand copy of the same and Casite Motor Honey a few times. Funny enough it still runs just fine and still burns oil. I use it as my home town beater when I (rarely) get to take leave from the Navy.
John Twist-one of the best MG mechanics alive-has a video on Youtube where he shows how to find top dead center on an engine that doesn't have the timing mark. His general method is to use an old spark plug drilled out with a long clear hose attached to it. He then squirts EP90 in the cylinder, hand tightens his hose assembly in the spark plug hole, and turns the engine over by hand while watching the fluid level in the hose. The highest level indicates TDC.
In any case, he comments in the video on how he's going to thread a shop towel into the cylinder followed by blowing it out with compressed air and then starting the car and letting it run outside for a while. His comment was that it makes a "terrible stench".
I must admit I have also used Gear Oil in a few different grades in an old Toyota that burned oil pretty badly. I only did it once as the smell was absolutely terrible. To add insult to injury I hate the smell of gear oil. It made no real difference to the rate at which it burned oil. That engine also saw cans of Restore (8 cylinder can in a 4cyl) STP and Wal-Mart brand copy of the same and Casite Motor Honey a few times. Funny enough it still runs just fine and still burns oil. I use it as my home town beater when I (rarely) get to take leave from the Navy.
John Twist-one of the best MG mechanics alive-has a video on Youtube where he shows how to find top dead center on an engine that doesn't have the timing mark. His general method is to use an old spark plug drilled out with a long clear hose attached to it. He then squirts EP90 in the cylinder, hand tightens his hose assembly in the spark plug hole, and turns the engine over by hand while watching the fluid level in the hose. The highest level indicates TDC.
In any case, he comments in the video on how he's going to thread a shop towel into the cylinder followed by blowing it out with compressed air and then starting the car and letting it run outside for a while. His comment was that it makes a "terrible stench".
I was selling an Accord and a Honda guy pulls up in a loaded CRV with his college age daughter. He looks at it, pulls the oil dipstick, smells it etc. The car was 9.5 yrs old with 166k on it. He compliments the car's condition and says it's worth every penny I was asking for it and the daughter said the same thing. I was asking over kbb private party value for it. They told me how much money they had to work with. The daughter saved up half the amount. So long story short I ended up selling it to them. The only thing better looking than the car was the daughter, WOW! Versus all the other nit pickers that came along or others trying to convince me that 2/3rds of what I was asking was more appropriate.
So you sold you car for 1/2 you were asking just because his daughter was hot?
For that discount me must have let you test drive his daughter
One other time I rented a late model Volvo XC70. It was winter and the PS was low so I topped it off with water.
Hertz sure wasn't going to reimburse me for my expenses
For that discount me must have let you test drive his daughter
One other time I rented a late model Volvo XC70. It was winter and the PS was low so I topped it off with water.
Hertz sure wasn't going to reimburse me for my expenses
Originally Posted By: Lolvoguy
So you sold you car for 1/2 you were asking just because his daughter was hot?
For that discount me must have let you test drive his daughter
One other time I rented a late model Volvo XC70. It was winter and the PS was low so I topped it off with water.
Hertz sure wasn't going to reimburse me for my expenses
I think he meant that half the money for the total asking price he got for the car had come from the hot daughter saving up, not that he sold it for half what he was asking.
So you sold you car for 1/2 you were asking just because his daughter was hot?
For that discount me must have let you test drive his daughter
One other time I rented a late model Volvo XC70. It was winter and the PS was low so I topped it off with water.
Hertz sure wasn't going to reimburse me for my expenses
I think he meant that half the money for the total asking price he got for the car had come from the hot daughter saving up, not that he sold it for half what he was asking.
Personal lubricant on Top Gear (US) a couple years ago. They 3 had cars that they drained the oil from and filled with water based lube, lard, and maple syrup respectively. Pretty hilarious episode.
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I once pulled the cover off a diff and found it crammed full of rotting old greasy bananas. The diff ran nice and quiet, though, at least until the bananas were replaced with gear oil.
I've seen a Vice documentary on African truckers and apparently when there is no gear oil to be found they stuff the diff with bananas every few hundred miles, and it works!
I once pulled the cover off a diff and found it crammed full of rotting old greasy bananas. The diff ran nice and quiet, though, at least until the bananas were replaced with gear oil.
I've seen a Vice documentary on African truckers and apparently when there is no gear oil to be found they stuff the diff with bananas every few hundred miles, and it works!
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