Justin Baker I like to see a “what if” factor for a just an over filled motor. I’ve heard it can blow the head gasket but I’d like to see if this is confirmed.
If the oil level is too high, the crankshaft will act as a kitchen whip and transform the oil into an oil emulsion (basically the same as making mayonnaise, but with oil in lieu of eggs). Since emulsions contain a lot of air and are more viscous than regular engine oil, the oil pump will not be able to circulate it and the engine will fail because it's oil starved
I like your channel, you always have interesting videos. This video reminded me of 'oil incidents'. A car came into my street trailing A LOT of smoke. They had just put in too much oil, didn't check the dipstick. The driver thought the oil needed topping up, so he had bought a 5L bottle and poured the whole lot in. I helped to drain it out and refilled it to the correct level. No more smoke. Now for something stupid I did. Years ago I changed the oil and filter in a car I had owned for a short time. I checked the levels and went for a drive. After going about 5km I stopped to check for leaks. There was one big leak alright. I hadn't put the filler cap back on and there was oil everywhere. Fortunately there was no damage to the engine and the filler cap was still there, so I called my father to bring some more oil. It took two cans of degreasing spray to clean up.
Had a faulty SU carburetor on a Volvo B18D engine (1.8 litre pushrod, dual SU carbs, mid 1960ies model) so the engine filled up with gasoline, all that happened was that the oil/gasoline was ejected at high pressure through crank rear seal into the clutch housing and spilled out from there. No fire, no mess, no bad sounds, drained most of it and filled a little new oil, no audible damage to crankshaft bearings. The leak was so severe/pressurized that the gasoline trail was a solid line even at speed.
I like to see the iconic Lada’s in your videos, my first car was a Lada 2107, they were called Riva here in the United Kingdom, I even took my driving test in it!!, Lada’s are one of my favourite cars of all time, I also had a Niva, a Samara and a 2104 combi, I really do love Lada cars!!. Greetings to Garage 54 from the United Kingdom.
He finally did the Poor Rich video! When I was in tech school there was a guy named Rich, who got the name because he was always asking for quarters for the coffee machine. The instructor asked him to change oil on a car (actually the instructor's friend's car) and told him to charge it to his account at the parts desk. They caught it before a start attempt, when they saw a few empty case boxes and something like 36 quarts of empty bottles laying around the car. Guy filled the engine to the top of the valve cover on a Chevy 305 or 350. They drained it, and after several plug cleanings it ran again. Poor Rich not only looked just like Jim from Taxi, which was a hit show at the time, but he was a true living version of him. No acting necessary to play the part.
When I first started dating my fiancee she was driving a Pink 94 Ford Escort wagon, When I asked when her oil was last changed she didn't know, I went and bought oil and a filter and pulled the drain plug out and the oil just kept coming and coming out of that little 1.8L engine that was only supposed to have just under 4L in it, in the end it had about 6L of oil in it and she had been reading the dip stick wrong, thank god that car was so tough lol.
My mom had a 94 escort when I grew up. She never changed the oil. Just ran it til the oil light came on. DROVE to a gas station and bought 1 quart of the cheapest oil. Never died. Also did 200,000 on original timing belt.
Ivan is obviously uncomfortable appearing on camera but he doesn't let it deter him! I notice he looked a bit more at ease in the shorty van video where he pretended to be a random bystander.
I think that the car won that experiment By Spraying everyone with oil that was a great experiment I love watching you guys with all your experiments keep it up two thumbs up!!!
The crazy test very interesting the best youtube channel for motor freak in history. Keep going, there is probably much more to explore in the future good luck
I was expecting to hydro-lock or at least have too much drag from having a full crank case. Guessing that pouring the oil in at relatively high RPM whipped enough air into the oil to prevent this from happening.
In 1991 I had a clapped-out Ford Escort 1.3l. The oil light came on, so I stopped at a garage and bought a 5l can of oil & proceeded to fill it to the brim - right to to the bottom of the oil filler cap... it took quite a bit of starting & when it finally fired up, a massive cloud of blue smoke floated across the garage forecourt! We left the scene and went to the motorway, to “burn off any excess oil”. I was a young idiot & attempted to achieve 100mph, but at 96mph, the #4 piston developed a large hole in it & I spread several litres of oil over the middle lane of the motorway. Had to be trailered home.
That was pretty cool I think in order to test oil properly what I would do is actually fill up the cooling system with oil to see if it would cool the motor
Experiment suggestion: Make engine intake air from inside vehicle cabin ("in cabin snorkel"). Then try to drive with all windows and ventilation closed. See if the engine stalls and if the driver suffocates. Is any vacuum achieved in the cabin?
NlhadH if you ever look at installing a sound system in a car you could see all the holes in the car, so no the engine wouldn’t stall, no the driver wouldn’t die from lack of oxygen, and no you wouldn’t have any type of vacuum at all.
Are you kidding!? With these ladas it's impossibility for it to be airc tight haha, none of the doors or glass will ever properly seal, there's millions of holes of rust, millions of holes that are there from factory etc
1. It does not have to be a Lada. 2. Yes there are several small holes and crevices in the vehicle body and the engine would suck lots of air through them, so it would be interestig to see the effect. Maybe it would create lots of howling noise due to lots kf air moving through small crevices. And the engine perfrormance should suffer. I did not say that the driver would die from suffocation, but that they might experience one as a difficulty to breathe, similar to being on a very high altitude.
@@NihadH ohh I see I completely misread the first comment and thought it said seal up the car and make it drive underwater or something for some reason lol
