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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 7:35 am Post subject: Getting off the Pennzoil Air Cooled habit |
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Hi Richard, I just read your post on the Kolb list about how to switch from one oil to another if you have an oil-injection system. And I agree with you 110%, but the reason you would go through this procedure is to make sure the combination of the two oils do not jell together and cause no oil to flow and therefor starving the engine of oil and probably doing a lot of damage to it. So what if you took an small sample, say a shot full, of the oil you are now using and one shot of the proposed oil that you intend to use,, mix them together,, let them set for 24 hrs. or even a week and if they jell do your procedure,, and if they don't,, mix em?
Tim Bjork
Firestar 11 N2552A
P.S. This is my first post on the list, so if I mess this up please excuse me.
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Richard Pike
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Location: Blountville, Tennessee
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: Getting off the Pennzoil Air Cooled habit |
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Hi Tim, welcome to the list. I don't really remember my post, so let me give you another war story. (hope I haven't told it already) Back around 1971, I had a Yamaha 175 with oil injection and I had been using (I guess) petroleum base 2 cycle oil in it. I was at my folks house and noticed that the oil had dropped below the little view window in the reservoir, and my Dad offered me a can (probably synthetic) of the oil he ran in his big outboard. I said OK, and was within a mile of getting home when it locked up.
The problem was it blended OK, no jelling or anything, it apparently just didn't cooperate with whatever oil was already in there, and consequently failed to lubricate like it was supposed to. Not being an oil guru, and having heard other similar horror stories, I decided that it is just too easy to drain out all the oil you can, put in the new oil, and then jack the oil injection pump to wide open while the engine runs lazily at around 3,000. Flushes the lines mos skosh, and kills all the mosquitoes within 100 yards too. Probably totally unnecessary, probably another example of my typical overkill way of doing things, but hey - I got a lot of mosquitoes in my hedgerow that need killin'-
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