Civic EG

say you had a slow leak and you were driving through the desert and you see your oil pressure light come on. Dipstick is dry and there's No stores/gas stations around, cell phone is dead.

If you had a few qts of auto tranny fluid in your trunk, what would happen if you put that in your motor?

What about power steering fluid?

What if you only had vegetable oil? Would that be better than little/no oil in the motor?

well if i was in the desert id try anything .....but i believe the tranny fliud and vegatable oil would both work the veg oil i think the rpms have to stay real low ... not sure tho maybe it wouldnt .. have no idea about the power steering fluid . beats dieing tho . lol

i would assume both would easily get past the rings, but you know assumeing does.

well since i own a honda and my honda tranny uses the motor oil i would go ahead and use it

DC4rob wrote:well since i own a honda and my honda tranny uses the motor oil i would go ahead and use it

beat me to this one, and in which case, I have 5 quarts in the back of my hatch right now, a bottle of coolant, and a big bottle of ps fluid. 1/2 inch torque wrench, spare coupe muffler, and a spare wheel and tire. I even have what I wiould need to detail the car too.

Greasedmonkey wrote:

DC4rob wrote:well since i own a honda and my honda tranny uses the motor oil i would go ahead and use it

beat me to this one, and in which case, I have 5 quarts in the back of my hatch right now, a bottle of coolant, and a big bottle of ps fluid. 1/2 inch torque wrench, spare coupe muffler, and a spare wheel and tire. I even have what I wiould need to detail the car too.

lol nice!! i usually carry my Detial equipment if have a detail and some tools thats about it and maybe a quart or 2 of oil.

Shit if i knew i was going through a fuckin dessert ad have a tool box and every fluid ma car needs plus plenty of petrol and prolly porn and hankys if all else fails!

haha...i like that tool box


i dont think it has any of the proper lubricating properties that engine oil has so it might work for another couple miles after you cooled it down, but doubt it would go too far

I'd fill it with sand

i saw that video on youtube where they drained the honda motor of oil, filled it with water, took off the header, and were reving the shit out of it to blow it up and it kept on keeping on. fuck it. hondas dont need oil.

I'd piss in the thing if I had to. If it would get me a few more miles closer to civilization.

i would just never drive through a desert....

Vegetable oil would work better than ATF. Simply because the AFT has an extreme thinning effect on oil and sludge, it would both clean and cause excessive wear to the engine. It wouldn't help the condition of the various seals and o-rings within the engine either.

Vegetable based oil (Castor oil), was used in the WW1 era radial aircraft engines, and in the automobiles used in that era as well.

Basically, whichever you use, you had better be ready to rebuild your engine when you get home...

Greasedmonkey wrote:i would just never drive through a desert....

but you live in Texas...you're surrounded by deserts

You'd have to driveat least three hours from any major city to get to a desert in Texas.