Then don't park your Pontiac over your well.I don’t necessarily want motor oil in my well water if I can help it….
Then don't park your Pontiac over your well.I don’t necessarily want motor oil in my well water if I can help it….
40-80:1 gas : oil ratio is two stroke territory... Also DI has pretty small injector holes I believe, so you should probably run it all through a decent filter... and then catalytic convert contamination. My cars seem to burn a quart per 700L of fuel through the motor which is about one OCI and I've always had happy cats. Burning a whole oil change in one OCI seems like its asking for trouble... Its about a 150:1 gas : oil for my cars.Could also burn the used oil maybe a quart at a time through a full tank of gas....
If that is a bad idea, please tell me why.
The stuff they spray on roads is more like a diluted version of the same oils used to make asphalt.... It contains none of the bad things that are found in used motor oil.The oil CAME from the ground, why is it bad to return it to the ground? Oil is often sprayed on dirt roads to keep dust down so how is that different?
Could also burn the used oil maybe a quart at a time through a full tank of gas....
If that is a bad idea, please tell me why.
Maybe he drives a Trabant?Because motor oil is not designed to burn.
40-80:1 gas : oil ratio is two stroke territory... Also DI has pretty small injector holes I believe, so you should probably run it all through a decent filter... and then catalytic convert contamination. My cars seem to burn a quart per 700L of fuel through the motor which is about one OCI and I've always had happy cats. Burning a whole oil change in one OCI seems like its asking for trouble... Its about a 150:1 gas : oil for my cars.
Maybe in an old pickup that uses much more fuel in an OCI?
Also I've heard of guys adding used motor oil to older tractors, I'd also worry about the oil separating, and breathing in all the heavy metals in used oil isn't a great idea. Diesel exhaust is bad enough as is.
Because motor oil is not designed to burn.
if it was filtered would probably be ok in older diesels.My logic would be.. that, if it mixes with the fuel and burns in combustion hopefully there would not be major catalytic converters poisoning. The amount could most certainly matter.
However, I am aware that people do not normally pour used motor oil into their gas tank.
It was common for people on the MB diesel forums to put a quart of their used motor oil in when filling the fuel tank. That was the old, IDI with mechanical injector pumps. I wouldn't try it today with electronic DI engines.if it was filtered would probably be ok in older diesels.
in a car esp a modern one its a bad idea for a variety of reasons.
you would also want to keep it to 500:1 or so or 1oz/4-5gal.
yeah, great fertilizer for potatos
exactly what i do...My local Waste Management trash collection will pickup 2 gallons of waste oil every week on trash day. So I put it at the curb on trash day. Easy.
Back in the day I used to return it to Advance Auto. They gave me that “tank is full” line twice. Never again. Drive around back and leave it at the back receiving door. It’s magically taken care of. Imagine that.
Why not just leave the jug and leave?The times I've used AZ I do the same, just walk back and dump it, nobody says a thing.
Clean off any smudgy oily fingerprints first. Or not, depending on how lax they are at your local Walmart.Buy a 5 gallon jug of oil from Walmart dump it in your car.
Refill the jug with used oil then super glue the cap on and take it back to Walmart for a refund.
Free oil
Old oil gone.