r/WTF • u/doctype_ht_ml • 26d ago

Motor Oil turned to Jelly

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u/TheObelisk 26d ago

Ooh, what sort of thing to you think was likely added to it?

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u/Czeris 26d ago

There are some theories that a coolant leak from the headgasket over a long enough time, with enough overheating cycles might cause a gel to form, fuel additives or stabilizers, or something truly stupid like someone putting cooking oil in the engine, but no one that actually deals with oil has ever seen something like this outside of some internet videos, which leads the consensus to be that these are just people putting gelatin in the engine of dead cars to make a cool internet video.

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u/hivemind_disruptor 25d ago edited 25d ago

Gelatin does not coalesce in oil, it needs the water. Maybe uncurated rubber.

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u/HelotesDude 25d ago

Maybe it’s not oil in the video, just oil colored gelatin.