On Mar 18, 8:35*am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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On Mar 18, 6:30 am, HK wrote:





SteveB wrote:
Yesterday, a poster answered my post where I bought some bottles of
Johnson
outboard oil. IIRC, he said to be sure it was TC-W3.

I looked on the bottles, and this is TC-W II.

Now, I go googling, and come up with the terms two cycle and two stroke.
To
my understanding, they are the same, using a firing system that has no
valves, and the oil/gas mixture goes on both sides of the piston, versus
the
four stroke where the crankcase oil is isolated from the combustion
chamber,
has a valve train, and it is called a four stroke. Never heard one
referred
to as a four cycle motor.

Can someone give me the short answer on if this TC-WII Johnson oil is
good
to use in my '89 Merc 4 cyl TWO STROKE motor?

Is there a discernable difference between TC-WII and TC-W3 oil?

I've run a lot of oil and a lot of gas in a lot of engines. Only burned
up
one chain saw, and that was when I had too much beer and used straight
gas
in it. OOps. Other than that, I have never had a problem, and have to
say
I probably ran stuff a lot oilier than I should have, but that's better
than
the chain saw episode.

Does this difference in oils really make a difference other than to anal
personalities? What is the difference between type 2 and type 3 oil?

Steve

I made suggestions to you about this earlier.
The differences in two stroke oil types are significant.

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Horse****. The only difference between 2 and 3 is that 3 has a tad bit
more anti-carbon agent in it. Now, I know you will start your idiotic
and childish name calling, so let's cut to the chase. Show me the
"significant" differences.

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He can use either oil if his outboard is of an 80's vintage. *The Type III
oil is backwards compatible for engines that originally called for Type II.

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True.

I use the wally world 2 stroke oil in our pwc. I'm not buying
"expensive" oil to get used once and burned :-)