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Timber where do you find it? Have a Farm and Home, NAPA, and O'Rileys here in town. Any of them stock it?
I just bought a lazer mag express with the new solo engine and the instruction manual specifically says not to use synthetic oil?
All of the motors have cylinder bores and rings that require non synthetic oils to break in and seat properly. Most will be OK after they have some hours (whole season) on them. Run it the first season with the factory oil at the factory reccomended ratio. Why would you worry about ratios at less than the manufacture suggests? Oil is cheap. But use the best oil. Pennzoil blend is a great oil after you have some hours at the reccomended ratio. If the smoke is an issue get a 4 stroke or electric. Your 2 stroke needs the oil.
One word of caution.....Once you use sythetic stay with it. Synthetic oil actualy builds up a film on bearings/linings this is a good thing. THE BAD....regular oil does not penetrate this film and therefore will not be able to lubricate properly. FRICTION = FAILURE. 50/50 chance if you switch back. Your money! Just a word of caution.
Will you back that up with some reputable data? I've been around 2 strokes all my life and that's the first time I've seen this claim and I think it's pure B.S.
Check several oil sites for properties/physics of synthetic oil. That should give some insite as to how it works. It's a good thing by far. Just a word of caution that was all. Yes oil will penetrate, but not always enough. BINGO! Have motors in junk pile that's why I posted. Money tight for some. Here synthetic $8 + a qt. versus reg. oil $2 and change qt. We consume quite a bit here. and after problems looked into it hard. It would take alot of running in a small engine (probably) to do damage. But some one may apply this info to vehicles also. And any damage then is expensive. (Just a chance) 40 plus years at engines myself and still learning. Smoke = rich mix/bad rings.
You're backpeddeling now. You are not spreading a word of cauton, it's a word of panic. What I asked was show the world something published that backs up what you say. I have NEVER read anything that says not to back to standard oil after using synthetic. How does the next guy know if you have ran synthetic in your snowmobile, outboard, auger, chainsaw or whatever when it gets traded in or sold? Why does synthetic blend oil work?
Check several as stated, pick a name- shell,mobil,gulf,pennzoil,Synthetics Etc. Synthetics by far, as I already agreed. And it does SUCK for the next guy unless it gets past on. Goodluck with that. ie: engines in pile. Due to cost, some may try to save on oil changes in these times and may not know some of these things. I did not say "will", nor do they. I'm Not here to convince, just answering a question from what's been learned/experienced/$ in my life. Thought that's what IceShanty was about?. Happenings/experiences of all of the outdoor community here.
You need to go to any of the synthetic oil companys web sites and read. There is no where it says anything about going back and forth between synthetic and dyno oils. If it was an issue there would be warnings. This is what Iceshanty is about, helping others with good real information.
I emailed Amsoil and asked "I just bought a Jiffy 2 stroke ice auger. It calls for 40:1 fuel/oil mixture. If I use amsoil professional 100:1, do I mix it 100;1 or 40:1?" The following is there reply:AMSOIL Saber Professional can be used at the 100:1 mix ratio, regardless of the OEM recommended mix ratio. This is one of the advantages of this product. You don’t need a different gas can for each different OEM mix ratio. One can serves all pre mixed engines. Thank you for this opportunity to respond to your question(s). As always, please feel free to contact us again if we can be of further assistance.http://www.worldsbestoil.ca/2-cycle-oil-synthetic-saber.phpBest Regards,Vijay ParanyDirect Phone: 1-416-894-2480Toll Free Fax: 1-888-776-5369www.worldsbestoil.ca
When I e mailed Nils about this when I broke my Tanaka in they told me up to 50-1 break in after that no warrenty issues at up to 100-1 if using Amsoil Saber. This was from Nils not Amsoil.