Used motor oil for 2 cycle oil.
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Are you suppose to have oil left inside a 2 cycle engine?
Comments (37)Well its not big enough to have everything but Henderson [between here and Vegas] does have everything and is only 15 minutes away. Vegas only another 15 minutes. Real estate hype? New home sales are way down as they are across the country. Apparently its worse here on the average but they say Vegas stands to recover quicker then most due to all the new jobs being created with new Hotel/Casino's being built. Of course another 911 could once again put the gaming industry in the pooper as it did on 911 because folks were afraid to travel. Took a couple of years to climb out of it last time. Yeah, spending decades doing something you don't like is a real bummer. I stumbled into this after doing many other things and found I liked repairing stuff. I would advise others starting out to find what they like and then find an outlet that has all the benefits including retirement though. Its tough in this business to find that and I wasn't smart enough to do it. They're out there though but you have to play the game and may take a while to get in. I woke up to it too late. Government based is the way to go in this business. The school district is the # one source around here. They pay as well as any private business and have all the benefits. Just some advise for newbies to the business to heed....See More2 Cycle Oil Mix Questions
Comments (2)Virtually all modern equipment companies have their own branded oil and its going to be 50/1. These companies also say their older engines are perfectly safe on 50/1 when using modern 2 stroke oil labeled for 50/1. Modern oil is so much superior to the older oils that the practice of mixing 50/1 is proper. The only engines where this may not apply would be the very old units, say 30 years or older that were designed and jetted to run on automotive 4 stroke oil. These were designed to be 25/1 or thicker. Because the jetting and clearances were designed for 4 stroke oil, days prior to 2 stroke oil being available, those older 2 strokers may have issues with 50/1. Otehrwise, unless you have one of those very old engines you should be perfectly safe using 50/1 when using 50/1 stroke oil that is specifically designed for outdoor power equipment. This does not mean you can use all purpose 50/1, anything listed as good for water cooled engines such as outboards or liquid cooled motorcycles is not outdoor equipment specific....See More2 cycle oil mixing ratios
Comments (7)Well, back in "The Olden Days", we used a half-pint of motor oil in a gallon of gas, and that mix worked in 95% of anything i used, in the two-cycle range! now, since the advent of better engineering, and better materials from which the engines, etc, are made, it was only natural to go to a better fuel formula-oil to gasoline mix. So-read what they recommend for your engine, and adhere to it! So--it takes multiple fuel containers--label each container, and instruct you wife and off-spring as to what goes where, and i'm quite sure you will have excellent results! A man called and asked me to come get his lawn mower for a spring tune-up. Before i could get there, we had a deep spring snow, but i went anyway. His son was blowing snow , but ran out of fuel (2-cycle). While he was looking for the can, his sister ran out,with a full can, filled the tank, grapped the starter rope, and got it started. (She wanted to use the machine, but her brother had grabbed it first!) I don't have to tell you what happened next, but here goes: BOOM, grate, clank--silence! I took it home as a gift, for parts! The can was not labeled! She got plain gasoline....See MoreMore 2 cycle oil
Comments (5)Jammer, Since you are obviously the lubrication expert on this forum I suppose that you can answer my questions, right? What validates your assumption that this statement "I could not detect any noticeable wear" is hype other than your kneejerk gut reaction? Did you correctly apply precision measuring instruments to the components in question and in fact prove there was wear? Next question. In this statement "Any Good mechanic knows that ball bearings spin without drag" are you saying that ball bearings have no drag, or frictional losses whatsoever? That`s what your statement implies. Your statement also implies by extension that oil qualities such as viscosity, film thickness, and shear strength have no effect, good or bad, on the bearing`s inherent resistance to rolling because as you`ve stated "Any Good mechanic knows that ball bearings spin without drag". I`d like to see your answer to this question. Third question. Although I agree that anyone making a statement that anything is "The best" is generally a huckster, your statement "when there's clearly a different rating for water cooled engines,and air cooled engines" apparently totally disregards the fact that an oil with higher standards of quality or a rating can infact be the better choice for both air cooled and liquid cooled engines. In other words, TCW-3 outboard oil will not be a good choice for an air cooled shifter cart engine because it won`t handle the higher temps that the cart engine normally sees but a good oil suitable for the cart engine will infact perform very well in a liquid cooled or boat engine in regard to low deposits, power output, and wear protection and might actually prove to be the best oil in a boat engine. The way that you seem to shoot from the hip and make such strong and authoritative statements while turning a blind eye to obvious possibilities, even probabilities, makes you seem no more credible than the person who`s testimony that you have chosen to denigrate....See Morenevada_walrus
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