premix oil and gas question
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Kind of wondering why you're doing the PreMix, but oh well.
Sounds like it's too rich. Remember the oil in a 2 Stroke is just along for the ride as the gasoline gives it a ride into the engine to lubricate moving parts. You get your power from the gas and air mixture. Too much oil will foul your plugs and cause the bogging. Are the plugs black and gunky with lots of carbon on them? This used to happen a lot before Oil Injection became common.
I'd dump the gas, fill with new along with proper pre-mix and change the plugs. Should be good.
Sounds like it's too rich. Remember the oil in a 2 Stroke is just along for the ride as the gasoline gives it a ride into the engine to lubricate moving parts. You get your power from the gas and air mixture. Too much oil will foul your plugs and cause the bogging. Are the plugs black and gunky with lots of carbon on them? This used to happen a lot before Oil Injection became common.
I'd dump the gas, fill with new along with proper pre-mix and change the plugs. Should be good.
polarisrider1
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Uh ya.
vipermax10
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if it had oil injection you better watch the jetting, oil takes up volume that would normally be gas and leans it out.
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If you put more oil in the mix the jetting will be lean and cause a bog. It takes gas to run and if to take away the gas and add oil which does not burn you will have a leaner gas mix going to the engine
anonomoose
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Oil goes into "perfect" solution when it is mixed with gasoline. Gasoline mixed with too much oil will smoke more and it will burn cooler which is why it fouls the plugs. But it is NOT a lean burn issue because if it were a lean burn issue, the machine would burn much hotter and that's when you burn a hole in pistons and have a general melt down. 2 Strokes don't like too much heat.
The oil does burn at a steady rate. But the engine has to be running at the right temperature to do it. Too hot...melt down...too cold not enough oil is burned and this isn't quite as bad and a hot condition but it can foul plugs and gunk up the pistons.
While the 2 stroke can run under a very lean condition which modern state of the art machines try to do to keep within emission standards, too lean is bad for them as it always has been. But if you run pre-mix with a GOOD oil that has all the required certifications, you should be able to run at 50:1 under all normal conditions without fouling the plugs or gunking up the pistons and still get all the power the machine is capable of producing.
Just don't run the machine with less than 50:1 or use a poor grade oil.
The oil does burn at a steady rate. But the engine has to be running at the right temperature to do it. Too hot...melt down...too cold not enough oil is burned and this isn't quite as bad and a hot condition but it can foul plugs and gunk up the pistons.
While the 2 stroke can run under a very lean condition which modern state of the art machines try to do to keep within emission standards, too lean is bad for them as it always has been. But if you run pre-mix with a GOOD oil that has all the required certifications, you should be able to run at 50:1 under all normal conditions without fouling the plugs or gunking up the pistons and still get all the power the machine is capable of producing.
Just don't run the machine with less than 50:1 or use a poor grade oil.