"gary" wrote in
oups.com:

The owner has been duly advised and admonished to mix his fuel to 50:1.



It's probably too late. All my 2-stroke marine engines have always run a
quart of TC-W3 to every 10 gallons, premixed. I think there's a sweet deal
between the EPA and the 2-stroke manufacturers.....

"You tell 'em to run 50:1 or 100:1 that'll wear the engines out faster, and
we'll let you continue to build such amazingly simple engines at such
amazing profit margins."

When I sold the Sea Rayder it was crowding 1000 hours on a 150hp 6-cyl
carb'd Mercury Sport Jet. It ran ratios less than 40:1 its whole
life....probably 30:1 or so in that tank. You could still see the hone
marks on the cylinder walls if you poked a borescope down in that spark
plug hole. Compression was more the day I sold it than it was the day I
bought it because the rings had "settled in"...(c;

If it ain't smokin'....it ain't lubin', either! It's a 2-stroke, you know.

--
Larry