Sythetic Oil or Natural?

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Cycofast

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My first tank of gas was 87 octane with synthetic 2 cycle, but I ran out of sythetic oil and put in some of my weed whacker's pre mixed gas/oil which uses regular 2 cycle oil. The weed wacker mix seemed to give off a lot more white smoke than the other two tanks using synthetic. Of course the weed wacker mix has probably been in my garage for 2 years or so, which could be problematic by itself. Does anyone else notice a difference?
 

Pablo

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Re: Synthetic Oil or Natural?

In some ways (top end/ignitionwise) these engines are just not that picky, otoh they need pretty oily bearings because they are fairly roughly machined.
One of the advantages of a smokeless two stroke oil is running a relatively high oil ratio (for the oil type as in running a 100:1 oil at 32:1) and not have deposits and smoke.

You weedwhacker mix allowed you to use up some old gas.....that's about it.

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Bikeguy Joe

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In my experience synthetic doesn't really smoke. I have used some cheap dino oil in my bicycle motor and it smoked for the first 5 minutes....then only a little after it was fully warmed up. I changed it to synthetic and no more smoke- even on start up.
 

nitroscope8

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I use bulk 2 stroke dino oil. I have a half gallon of it and I just use that since it's cheap. The bike with the cat on it doesn't smoke much after it gets hot, but mine smokes more. you can notice it on a sunny, hot day with some haze.

When I use my stash up, ill head out and get full synthetic stuff. My mix is between 30-32:1. I have no gauge, so I guestimate.