Right, my first engine was a Silver Century Plus Seagull, which lasted many
years,
including a jaunt from Illinois to Florida via the Mississippi River.

However, I never liked the noise from the two strokes and premixing the gas and
oil was always a pain.

I made the mistake of thinking a big company like Yamaha knew how to design a
4 stroke to work with today's gasoline. Big mistake. Not only is taking the
engine
out of storage a dreaded experience, but just missing a week or two of use is
also
an adventure, where you never know if the engine will run properly until you try
it.
I have torn down my carb so often, it reminds me of tearing down my former M1,
blindfolded. All this from an engine that cost well over two grand.

Sherwin D.

Larry wrote:

sherwindu wrote in news:44599C28.2766BD73
@comcast.net:

I never had any
of these problems with my old two strokes. That's progress!


The old 2-strokes, now scoffed at and abused, had OIL in their gas,
preventing the gas from turning to pure shellac and clogging the jets.
When the gas in the carbs evaporated, the jets were full of OIL, not an
orange solid you have to drill out to clean off. So, when you pulled the
old 2-stroke out of storage, the OIL in the carbs clogging everything up
just mixed with the new gas-oil pumping in and caused that wonderful
cloud of blue smoke that always wafted up your nose, announcing to your
brain that, "ANOTHER GREAT BOATING SEASON HAS JUST BEGUN!"...(C;

Of course, the OLDER the old 2-stroke was, the BETTER this worked. Gas
premixed 15:1 with "Flying A" SAE 30 motor oil greasily coating every
surface of the old motor caused by the mix pouring out of the little
float pin in the top of the carb, protected it all from any corrosion, as
well as starting problems. (Look at any old Seagull 2-stroker)...

That trail of oil floating on the lake behind you going away from the
dock wasn't pollution, it was CORROSION PROTECTION!....

I wanna know where it all went. If you listen to a Greenie talking about
2-stroke outboard motors, every lake in the country SHOULD be about 3"
deep in motor oil! After all, they've been driving those engines since
1900! I didn't see any in the lakes or even in the ocean, downstream.
Where'd it all go? Over my lifetime, I must have contributed several
thousand gallons.

My little Yamaha 3hp is a 2-stroke.....Cranks right up...er, ah...if I
remember to open the vent cap..(blush).