You Can Make An Engine Run With Wooden Pistons, But It Won't End Well

A Russian YouTube channel managed to make an old Vaz run on wooden pistons, but not for long!
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If you’ve ever wondered whether or not a car could run with wooden pistons, we’ve good news: a rather resourceful Russian YouTube channel called Garage 54 decided to give it a try. The answer? Yes, it works, but not for long.

The initial issue came when the beautifully crafted ash lumber pistons soaked up a load of oil and expanded, seizing the piston rings. After widening the grooves and reinstalling the pistons, the Vaz 2106’s 1.6-litre engine did briefly fire into life, but it wasn’t happy. It misfired badly and even spat out its dipstick. The host noted that they “did at one point sense a strong wooden odour.”

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There’s a good reason why: the pistons had “burned straight through” after an estimated 15-20 seconds of running.

Now this highly important question has been answered, why not find out what happens when you replace your engine oil with cola…?

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Comments

Sennalover2018

Wood anyone like to give this a go?

05/02/2018 - 12:04 |
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Stop

05/02/2018 - 12:13 |
4 | 30

That joke was pine-ful.

05/02/2018 - 12:20 |
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Duggan (koalafan) (koalafan7) (Esprit Team) (Z32 Group) (Lot

In reply to by Sennalover2018

Sure sounds like a walk in bark to do

05/02/2018 - 12:22 |
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Duggan (koalafan) (koalafan7) (Esprit Team) (Z32 Group) (Lot

In reply to by Sennalover2018

Come over to this comment thread and STICK around to TREEt yourself to some puns

05/02/2018 - 13:17 |
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You stumped me there

05/02/2018 - 19:49 |
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ATOGI_28

Maybe this is what phil needs to run…

05/02/2018 - 12:07 |
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Anonymous

Only in Russia

05/02/2018 - 12:08 |
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Duggan (koalafan) (koalafan7) (Esprit Team) (Z32 Group) (Lot

Or you could make it run with a treadmill (ba-dum-tsss) okay I’ll leave now

05/02/2018 - 12:19 |
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Disklok

Had the exact same problem when creating a wooden Disklok

05/02/2018 - 12:31 |
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Boosted69420

Still runs better than phil….

05/02/2018 - 13:44 |
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ShadowHuayra (HemiPower)

And the ‘you’re a resourceful moron’ award goes too:….. Garage 54

05/02/2018 - 13:50 |
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Anonymous

that was never gonna end well….maybe they couldnt see the wood for the trees…….

05/02/2018 - 14:08 |
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Matt Amos

What a surprise, it wooden work…😂

05/02/2018 - 14:24 |
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stealthy

“Improvise, adapt, overcome” -Bear Grylls

05/02/2018 - 15:01 |
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