I was watching a video on Dunkirk and was told that soldiers would run truck engines dry to cause them seize and rendering them useless to the Germans. What is an engine seize? Can those engines be salvaged? Or would the Germans in this scenario know it’s hopeless and scrap the engine completely?
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Engines move very fast. When metal moves fast it gets hot and it gets slightly bigger. Oil stops the engine from getting too hot. The space in an engine is so tight that when you take away its oil, the metal expands and gets stuck together.
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