I thought i was clicking on a April Fool's Day video. Man was a wrong. Keep up the AMAZING production of your videos. They truly are some of the best tests.
Here’s a fun video idea: “Which cooking oil best acts like an engine oil?” Then you test out vegetable oil, corn oil, canola oil, peanut oil, sesame oil, etc.
I'm so surprised with the buildup of bacon grease I'm having a hard time believing this isn't a joke. Laughing at the results. Who would have thought!?
One of the ... *problems* I have with your channel is that whenever I use my lawnmower now, I remember one of your tests. Most of my lawn is mowed with a Husqvarna Automower, but from time to time I have to fire up my trusty Briggs & Stratton powered McCulloch mower. It is the sound of the engine. I do not think about it while taking the mower out of the garage but when I pull the starter and the engine fires up, your engines and videos come to mind. And then I start asking myself: Isn't it time to change the oil? Would it run on a diesel/petrol mix? Should I clean it by spraying water in the carb? How about some bacon grease... You get the idea. ;-)
Water spray works every now and then, no need to do it more than once a year unless you have very dirty gasoline. I did it on my neighbor's mower once and it went from stalling every few minutes to working properly.
8:08 I've watched every video Todd has made with all kinds of weird and conventional products, and this has got to be the first one where the engine looks as good as it did prior to running it. I'm tempted to switch to bacon grease long term now.
50/50 mix with motor oil to clean dirty heads would be an awesome video! I wonder if you mix 10W30 with bacon grease if it would keep the grease liquid at room temp and improve the viscosity issue. Awesome video!
I am thinking about a similar split/weight mix of oil + grease for more optimal engine performance. I wonder if the engine would crank after cooling using straight bacon grease?
I think you would have to build a ring heated by a 1000 watt heat gun to set the mower over for a few minutes. This would bring the oil grease mixture up to about 170F.
Fun happening! While I was watching this video at the part where you try the bacon grease in the mower. One of my roommates microwaved some bacon in the next room. When the aroma hit me, I freaked for a split second. Almost like smell-a-vision had been created! 🤣
A colleague had a tip for worn/knocking camshafts, pork skin. He had a knackered engine, threw the pork skin into the cam cover and it sounded like new. It's only a short term fix, though. He sold the car telling the buyer that the engine was toast. Buyer thought engine was OK in spite of warnings. Buyer came back a bit later saying car had failed. "I told you engine was knackered but you still bought it".
Been starting my lawn mower with a drill motor for 60 years. My shoulders and arms thank me. I also put a nice fat air filter up high on the handle, and ran a flexible hose to it. Kept the dust and debris out, oil stayed clean and engine didn't wear out, replaced bottom oil seal a few times, and a few sets of wheels,, can't count the times l mowed the yard with it. I just got old and maybe a bit lazy, got a riding mower, that old push mower is out in the shop, and still has good compression, it would still run if l wanted, but l let my old pal just sit there. Hey, thanks for the hog fat test, hmm, never thought of that one.🌈
It's no surprise that bacon grease (or really, any rendered fat) makes a good lubricant. Part of the reason is that it adheres to the metal so well. Even after it solidifies, it should lubricate well enough to start an engine and run it up to the melting point. Under load, as the video showed, it has pretty good film strength. Railroads used to use rendered fats (like whale oil!) as rod lubricants because they worked so well. As to leaving the cylinder clean, burning the grease would release some hydrocarbon chains of various lengths, which might act as vaporized solvents. Just a guess. But burning it would also release acrolein from the decomposition of glycerine (fats are triglycerides, after all) and acrolein is nasty. It'll make your eyes and throat burn, and can polymerize and form a film, and then a crust, on a cool surface. It may even glaze the cylinder wall. Decomposition of glycerine may account for the change in viscosity after being run in an engine. It would free up the fatty acids to an oil form. Everything has its trade-offs. Bonus: Fats can be broken apart, much like soap-making, with lithium hydroxide. It forms a sort of "lithium soap" that is actually sold as a lubricant with many of the good properties of fats, has less tendency to decompose, and is not acidic, as fatty acids (the hydrocarbon component of fats) are. So if you can get some lithium, you could try making this out of bacon grease. (Just take the lithium metal from a battery and put it in water. You end up with lithium hydroxide.)
@@ProjectFarm note of warning: lithium explodes on contact with water. Add only small quantities of lithium at a time, or allow the lithium to oxidize (in oxygen environment or air) first.
Neat video. Bacon grease for emergency use but on startup it is thick and would quickly cause engine wear. Burns extremely clean in cylinder head. Thanks for sharing.
Throw a spring between your socket & the nut for starting & it helps to "kick off" the socket from the nut once the engine running // you can epoxy the spring to the mower nut shaft unit, or tac weld it or similar TIG etc
My wife and I watch your videos from time to time and I find them very interesting and use. I have a question. Near the end of this video you said using, “bacon grease could be detrimental because of the sludge,”. Also you said earlier in the video it could not be filtered on a camping trip. This leads me to some questions that I thought would interest you. What if the sludge in the engine after running was from the bacon grease cleaning the engine? If it left the combustion chamber cleaner maybe the sludge was caused from the residue of where other oil had been used and left the engine nasty. I also think maybe some of the issues maybe in the grease not being filtered or cleaned.
As a lubrication engineer chemist, the results of this are very fascinating how well it works when it's hot enough to flow. But clearly it is not applicable because it doesn't at room temperature.. hmm
I was thinking the exact same thing; however you could use alternative methods to heat it up, then just don't let the engine get cold until you get to where you're going.
@@seamalulion google with the way their recommendations work :P "do you want to watch a video about nuclear reactor accidents???" "well thats what auto played as you bent over to pickup that item you dropped, enjoy" *last video was Journey Quest playlist ending* ....how is that in any way related.... rofl
My great grandfather told me they used to use bacon rind as wheel packing on their old model T during the depression era... worked then... why not now? Lol
Looks real good! But sadly organic oils do degrade with high heat, over time, so theres no saying it wont damage the engine long term... And as seen in the flow test this is just unuseable for cold regions. But good to know for emergencys :D
You just have to burn a bucket full of coal put it under the oil pan of your car in the morning for a while before you turn the ignition. Not a big deal.
I seriously can’t believe how clean the combustion chamber was. This video was posted on April fools day as well so that makes it even harder to believe 😂 although I think if it was a joke, PF would’ve said so at the end of the video so I’m inclined to believe the results.
When you took that head off I was amazed! It makes me wonder if adding some bacon grease to our automobiles crankcase along with regular oil, if it would help keep our engines cleaner?
@@TristynRusselo Depends on where you live, if you live in a very hot area it wouldn't ever really solidify, it's liquid at 80F and not totally solid till like 60F or lower
it would be interesting to run the same test but comparing modern SAE 30 oil to castor oil.....castor oil was the first widespread commonly used lubricant in early aircraft engines before and during WW1
Wait.... So adding some bacon Grease to the oil (and or oil change) at least once every other year will help to clean out the combustion chamber of my lawn mower & generators? Great video!
Being motorcycle session, I would like to see you do some motorcycle based oils. Is there a good reason to pay double the price for it over auto oils? Is the cheap oils just as good as the Harley Davidson oil? Hmm 🤔
usually motorcycle oils have additives for the transmission/wet clutch since most motorcycle share oil for both. my Vmax popped out of gear and the clutch was not perfectly smooth on the engagement. i put specific motorcycle oil in there and it literally fixed both issues within the first couple miles of riding. besides, most motorcycle only take a couple quarts, so its not bad
I think it has been reasonably well established that oils without molybdenum in them are fine for motorcycles. In some cases, the oils marketed as motorcycle oil are the same oils in the big jug for cars. "Extended Life" oils have molybdenum in them usually. Terrible idea to use that in anything because if you have enough metal-to-metal contact for the moly to be of interest, then you need a rebuild anyway.
bvcxz gt, agreed I have used Castrol 10 W 40 in my GSX-R since I have owned it. But in my Harley Davison I have always do use the Harley oil, which I have always thought it was nothing more than 20 W 50 car oil but double the price
I'm a machinist, and in old machining manuals they talk about using the fat from lambs I think, but it has a weird property that makes it flow from a cooler area to a hotter area, unlike most oils I guess, which higher friction means more heat, anyway, maybe that would be a good test for you, if the magical 1950's machinist lamb fat would work better than bacon grease?
I eat bacon 3-4 times a week(7days) and all my bad cholesterol is way under what the limit should be and my good cholesterol is above normal range. I'm telling ypu bacon is the key to longevity.
Damon Schisel really bacon is better for you overall compared to eating the equivalent amount of calories in cereal or some other high carb/high sugar food. It does have a fair amount of saturated fat but it has 1.7x that amount in unsaturated fat which is good for HDL and doesn’t spike blood sugar like grains/sugar does and it’s high in protein. However it’s not any good for you if you’re eating it consistently and it’s causing you to go over your recommended daily calories/if you’re significantly overweight. If you’re already at your calorie limit your body is making enough saturated fat, adding bacon on top of that is only going to hurt. A lot of it has to do with genetics as well, I have horrible cardiovascular genetics. Even when I was skinny my LDL was on the high end of normal and my HDL was on the low end of normal, my dad died of a heart attack at 44 and his dad died of one at 55, so I’m fucked.
@@Just-InTimeRepairs glow plugs are for preheating the AIR in the combustion or precombustion chamber. They wouldn't do very much heating a liquid. There is such a thing as a block heater though. But I don't think one would heat the bacon grease in the filter and upper oil galleries which would clog up the whole system.
@@drksoldier1 Technically, they're for heating the fuel, but that's not the point. My idea was to tap a couple in the oil pan, and turn them on for 5 or 10 seconds before starting the engine, just like a diesel.
It's a lot better for the arteries then plant oils the bind together and form a nasty sticky gel that can only be removed from the walls with chemicals.
I saw this was posted on April 1st, and after seeing how clean the cylinder head and valves were after the bacon grease run, I was 100% sure this was going to be an April Fools joke. Never underestimate the power of bacon!
@@theroyalcrownedtiger2946 I once saw a video, and I think it was Alton Brown on Good Eats, that cooked an entire meal by strapping various food to a big Cadillac or Lincoln. The food was appropriately wrapped and they were attached to various places based on the temp needed to cook. The baked potatoes went on the exhaust, the meat on the intake manifold, etc...
That worked well, if the sump was able to be warmed to keep the bacon grease viscous, it might be ok. Be careful, oil companies don't like people promoting alternate oil products. Watch out for black vans in your driveway.
It burned so clean you have to think there's detergents in it. Which means you could probably use it to clean a vehicle and flush before it turns solid.
@@ProjectFarm I really thought this was an April fools thing when it outperformed the oil in the lubricity test. I'm still not entirely sure if I take this seriously. hah
@@johnphillip1711 If you have anywhere over 50 pounds of Bacon, that might only happen if Sasquatch runs off with dozens of pounds of bacon over his head.
Lol! I think the salt / blood pressure thing is mostly a myth though, based on a study where they fed rats the human equivalent of over 2 pounds of salt per day
@@alakani interesting. More salt in blood pulls more fluid out of cells through osmosis, thus increasing total blood volume and blood pressure.... Hard to believe but ill look into it.
@@schmo7777 Not too much or too little of anything, that's where health is. With that said, Sweet Potatoes are great for Potassium. Stick some butter on top for the fats to absorb Vitamin A better if you feel like it.
This evaluation appeared to be both fun and informative. The nutritional data assessment and pour test were hilarious. Your methodologies are well planned, very scientific and quite budget-friendly. As an engineer, I am very impressed. I would like to add that historically, before the petroleum industry was founded the oils and lubricants industry did operate on animal fats such as whale oil and bacon grease, so this study was a great look back into the past. Care to comment on the smell in the garage during the test?
Whatch u mean you can't? Someone just did. Unless it's April Fools. Which I doubt. It's a lawnmower. Hey' I'd try it in an old six though. If it starts smoking like crazy, shut it off.
I'm an engineer. I thought I knew a lot about lubrication. I thought I knew a lot about physics. I thought I knew a lot about lubricant chemistry. I don't know squat. Well played, sir, well played.
Now everyone is going to want to know what brand the bacon was from. Then there will be an investigation because established brands actually get their pigs from different farms and pedigrees and they even switch it up based on supply and demand. Wow. It really does sound like the automotive industry all over again! LOL!
Maybe the Oil Companies need to take a better look at the lubrication qualities of pig fat. I really thought there would be a lot of smoke. Surprise there. Perhaps the higher heat allowed for a better cleaning of the piston and valve.
@@ProjectFarm yeah do a car engine brother. Their probably giving us that that oil because it hurts our cars like they did with the light bulb company’s
Dennis19901 he certainly is... buster was the Guinea pig for all of their tests... whereas this mower is PF’s version of “Buster”... haven’t seen this video yet but scrolling through comments... until I found this one... Project Farm, you should name your test mowers after buster from Mythbusters... always the Guinea pig for your tests which I call TTs (torture tests) as always, great content, have been subscribed for quite some time now... definitely my #1 channel for tested products that I can chose from myself knowing they have stood up to your tests 😁
@@bestleesinna7702 Far from a millennial. After my wife burned down the kitchen using one of the usual frying oils, I researched which had the highest smoke point. So far, my house is still standing since I started only buying avocado oil for her 😂.
@Jake Shattuck Yep. My wife has a cousin who's husband owned a 2002 VW Jetta TDi turbo diesel. He used to go around to all the mom and pop fast food places and find out if they were looking to get rid of their fry grease. He had a whole filtering process that he setup in a shed for filtering the grease into pure oil. Worked really well for quite a long time until other folks starting catching on and grease was harder to come by.
i would like to see an amount of bacon grease added to regular engine oil to see if it works as an engine oil addictive and cleans the combustion chamber
Bears also full of fat, my suggestion is that you use the smell of cooked bacon to lure a bear in. Shoot it, field dress it, combine the bear grease with the bacon grease, pour 5qts into your engine, and get the hell outta there.
@@grassroot011 We are losing the battle with feral hogs. I heard a while back on the radio that there has to be a 60% yearly harvest rate to keep the numbers sustained. There's currently about a 25% harvest rate. I've only gotten 2 so far. 1 a few years ago and 1 back in January. I take my rifle every time I visit my grandpa at his ranch just in case I see a hog.
