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Extra oil for 2 stroke break in?
- Thread starter Chris142
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i run a commercial lawn service and i use 40/1. my equiptment lasts 15 yrs min. i have some 25 years old
Stuff that sees extended wide open runs pretty much all the time with short idle breaks like weedeaters, leaf blowers, little 2stroke tillers with weedeater engines, 32:1 seemed to run really good.
Stuff that sees a good amount of idle time like chainsaws, headge trimmers, cutoff saws 40:1. Saws would load up with 2stroke oil running 32:1 and make some nice smoke puffs on throttle up.
40:1 runs real good in everything.
I ran a tank of 40:1 through it. I was gifted a gallon of 40:1 tru fuel. Now what ?
Run another if it worked well, but I have not had good luck with Tru Fuel. I prefer to mix my own with E0 91.
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I've had mixed results with TruFuel. To me it seems more like batch inconsistency than it being a bad product. I've had great luck with VP racing 40:1 cans. I break-in new saws on the 40:1 canned fuel.
Run it. Being 40:1 trufuel should have put enough oil there it to keep a 50:1 machine alive, one would hope.
^This.
When I bought my Toro snowthrower, the sales guy said that the gas cap calls for 50:1 but he recommended using 40:1 instead.
23 years later, it still runs, and very well at that.
Common to do in R/C nitro engines...run them rich and heavy on the oil for the first several tanks...then slowly lean them out.
Cujet posts fact.
I do. We have dirt bikes and have gallon jugs of it, so it makes sense for me. Saw and blower runs great on it.
I think someone else has already said this, but adding oil to a 2 stroke leans it out because there is less fuel and more oil. When you decrease oil you increase fuel and richen it. That is how a carb tuner would look at it.
Back when I ran with the R/C crowd, my favorite fuel was this cheap hobby store brand stuff that had real castor oil in it. My engines loved that stuff and lasted forever. It made a hell mess on the side/tale of the plane, though. A small price to pay in my opinion.
On R/C engines you constantly play with the mixture...there is a screw that changes it, so you simply add oil, then turn out the screw to make it more rich. So yeah...you can add oil, and run it richer at the same time.
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