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Fuel mix
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 5:37 pm
by gorm
If I use synthetic oil, can the mix change from 25:1 and what is everyone else doing? Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Garth in Regina
Re: Fuel mix
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2010 10:35 pm
by vmaxx4
gorm wrote:If I use synthetic oil, can the mix change from 25:1 and what is everyone else doing? Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Garth in Regina
I run Klotz in all my injected sleds, but I have not had good perfrormance running synthetic in my vintage sleds. I simply run Yamalube at 32:1 in all my Hirth singles.
Re: Fuel mix
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 7:26 am
by Roy Teske
I run a regular 50:1 oil at 40:1 mix. I tried it at 25:1 to start but it seemed like a lot more smoke and unburned oil was passing through. A lot messier in the engine compartment. I won some synthetic oil at a run and was thinking of trying it. Maybe not. How was performance different?
Re: Fuel mix
Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 10:41 pm
by vmaxx4
Roy Teske wrote:I run a regular 50:1 oil at 40:1 mix. I tried it at 25:1 to start but it seemed like a lot more smoke and unburned oil was passing through. A lot messier in the engine compartment. I won some synthetic oil at a run and was thinking of trying it. Maybe not. How was performance different?
The synthetic oil I tried mixing was not Klotz. What I found was that I had a lot of unburned oil that seemed to seap out of cracks and opening in my flex pipe that I never knew I had, and what did come out was a sticky/gooey mess that was almost impossible to clean up.
Maybe it was the oil (Shell synthetic that I used to run in my wifes XLT) or that I just had it mixed too rich but it was a mess that I just don't get when I run Yamalube.