Calling the chemical engineers/smart guys

[wmoguy]

I tried something different with my WMO mix this time. My WMO comes from the same collection place I always get oil from. My additives to 40 gallons of oil include 5 gallons of diesel, 5 gallons of kerosene, 1 gallon of unleaded.

The pic below has me boggled. This is after 8 passes in the fuge. This far along I've never seen this much come out of the oil. The consistency of that nastiness is exactly that of bearing grease. I've filtered both cold and at 185 degree oil temp and this is what I get after 1 complete pass of the oil.

Have I found away to remove even more contaminants? Think it's just the oil was dirtier?

 

[towcat]

I'm no chemical engineer nor do I have any intelligence( want proof? I'm hanging out here)
but the goo you have there looks like something I drain out of a motor that had a bad headgasket for some time and the oil has gotten hot enough to homogenize the water/oil to turn into that goo you have there.
just a experienced WAG.......nothing more.

 

[wmoguy]

I'm no chemical engineer nor do I have any intelligence( want proof? I'm hanging out here)
but the goo you have there looks like something I drain out of a motor that had a bad headgasket for some time and the oil has gotten hot enough to homogenize the water/oil to turn into that goo you have there.
just a experienced WAG.......nothing more.

Thx TC. Hmmm.. Now u got me thinkin

Btw what is WAG?

 

[towcat]

Thx TC. Hmmm.. Now u got me thinkin

Btw what is WAG?

Wise
Ass
Guess

 

[wmoguy]

Wise
Ass
Guess

 

[G. Mann]

As opposed to SWAG which is a Scientific Wild Ass Guess.... a WAG which is only a "Wild Ass Guess"...

My SWAG is that you just got a load of contaminated oil that had a load of bearing grease in it.
Try a test sample in a mason jar. Put a handful of bearing grease in, then "thin" it with your ratio of diesel, ULG, and Kero, then try to get it to all become liquid. Betting it won't, and betting it will act like what you have.

 

[h2odrx]

looks to me like someone threw in plastic bags in your oil?

 

[wmoguy]

looks to me like someone threw in plastic bags in your oil?

Those would be disposable gloves in the bucket.....

 

[Armo]

Not sure if this would apply but your pic reminds me of what happens to the oil i pull out of diesel vehicles that have gone through a hard winter. All my own oil ive collected out of tractors that have ran through a harsh winter has had a thick substance settle to the bottom of my settling drum. Its still slick feeling stuff but its definitely thick almost like grease. On one tractor ran daily for cattle feeding during the winter i was able to pull nearly 1 gallon of this thick sludge out of 5 gallons of motor oil i let settle for 8 months.

 

[Brad S.]

Almost looks like the same stuff Mike Rowe got his hands dirty with in the Ford commerical, stuff he couldnt flick off his finger.

 

[Devilish]

You are getting sludge. This is a better fuge than you are using but I think you are doing pretty good filtering. http://bestcentrifuge.com/compare

 

[wdkingery]

first post!

how do you avoid this "sludge" ?

i'm about to jump in on WMO for an 1985 jetta idi (just got my barrels today) and i wanna avoid this sludge.

 

[h2odrx]

first post!

how do you avoid this "sludge" ?

i'm about to jump in on WMO for an 1985 jetta idi (just got my barrels today) and i wanna avoid this sludge.

Welcome to OB!

Just, filter, filter, filter, start out with a mix and watch it in clear jugs to see what it does at outside temps, being on the east coast it don't get all that cold so you can run higher mixes......