OT - Why does gear oil stink?
10-02-2003, 12:28 AM
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OT - Why does gear oil stink?
No urgency here. Just wonder why gear oils are so stinky. Motor oil, while certainly no bouquet of roses, doesn't smell that bad. What gives?
10-02-2003, 01:01 AM
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Re: OT - Why does gear oil stink?
Originally posted by Manning
No urgency here. Just wonder why gear oils are so stinky. Motor oil, while certainly no bouquet of roses, doesn't smell that bad. What gives?
No urgency here. Just wonder why gear oils are so stinky. Motor oil, while certainly no bouquet of roses, doesn't smell that bad. What gives?
Don't know the answer to your question though.
10-02-2003, 03:55 AM
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Originally posted by ERAU-944
probably due to sulfur content? thats my guess, thats what my old gear oil smelled like.
-Michael-
probably due to sulfur content? thats my guess, thats what my old gear oil smelled like.
-Michael-
Sulpur content is high PPM level in gear oil.
It slowly converts to H2S (the cat ... smell) during the deterioration of the structure of the oil (time & heat cycles).
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10-02-2003, 10:35 AM
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Hehe...true story:
My bro-in-law changed his tranny oil in my garage in his MR2. He wasn't careful in putting the un-used bottles back, but was kind enough to put my wife's car back in the garage.
The next day, Mrs. Z-man runs over a bottle of that stuff, squirting it all over the place. The garage must have smelled for at least 1/2 a year!
[shudders]
-Z.
My bro-in-law changed his tranny oil in my garage in his MR2. He wasn't careful in putting the un-used bottles back, but was kind enough to put my wife's car back in the garage.
The next day, Mrs. Z-man runs over a bottle of that stuff, squirting it all over the place. The garage must have smelled for at least 1/2 a year!
[shudders]
-Z.
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10-02-2003, 12:39 PM
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I think is might be a blend of camel dung and mucus from daycare centers in the middle east.
Have you ever had that stuff spill on your person? YUCK. It does NOT wash off! It has to slowly wear away.
Have you ever had that stuff spill on your person? YUCK. It does NOT wash off! It has to slowly wear away.
10-02-2003, 01:08 PM
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Yeah I splilled some of that stuff on my jeans a few years back.... well those things went straight in the bin.
Z-man I pity upi putting up with that smell in your garage.
Z-man I pity upi putting up with that smell in your garage.
10-02-2003, 02:05 PM
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Oh yeah, that stuff gets rancid and stinks even worse than regular gear oil though. Starts to smell like bad fish.
I tell ya though, as soon as I open a container of gear oil my eyes start to burn. I can tell if a bottle of the stuff has been opened in a room even hours later, even if none of it has been spilled. Part of the reason I stopped wearing contact lenses, my eyes are just to sensetive to stuff like that.
I tell ya though, as soon as I open a container of gear oil my eyes start to burn. I can tell if a bottle of the stuff has been opened in a room even hours later, even if none of it has been spilled. Part of the reason I stopped wearing contact lenses, my eyes are just to sensetive to stuff like that.
10-02-2003, 04:10 PM
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Originally posted by Manning
Oh yeah, that stuff gets rancid and stinks even worse than regular gear oil though. Starts to smell like bad fish.
Oh yeah, that stuff gets rancid and stinks even worse than regular gear oil though. Starts to smell like bad fish.