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Default Synthetic or regular oil?

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:54:47 -0400, "Midlant"
wrote:

With dino oil in a jet ski enough was left unburnt to get down to the
crank to lubricate it.


I beleive that's a bit backwards.

My understanding of a 2 cycle engine is that the gas/oil mixture
enters the crankcase first, and is then ported into the cylinder for
combustion.