too much oil?

crabdance · #1 06-23-2008, 08:27 AM

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if you run too much oil in your gas mixture can you hurt your 2 stroke engine? I pretty much know that I ran mine pretty high on the oil to gas ratio. I can't tell you what the ratio is because I was guessing. I had less than a gallon of gas to start with and guessed at the amount of oil to use.

Anyway, I only rode it for about 30 minutes. Could that hurt my engine in any way? I certainly don't want to do that. Any help is appreciated.

cd

Pablo · #2 06-23-2008, 08:54 AM

Short term, probably not. But long term it's not good.

Dump the rest of that fuel in your car, and start with fresh fuel. Use a shot glass or marked bottle, a clean (new) 1.X gallon can. Pour some of the fuel in, add the oil. Mix well. Add some more of the fuel (1/2 gallon), mix well again. Add the remainder of the fuel. Mix well.

I do this at the gas pump with no difficulty because I have a plastic measuring squirt bottle for my oil. Made it easy when I did the castor oil blend. The beauty of the pump is I can meter in near perfect one gallon of gas.

crabdance · #3 06-23-2008, 09:07 AM

Thanks Pablo, I feel a little better about it now. I was worried. I don't have to worry about dumping the fuel anywhere because that was all that I had and it went into the bike. I just got back from the gas station where I added about .75 cents of gas to the mixture and that should help me out a lot.

Thanks for getting back with me. Being new to this I was worried about any effects. I think I will be ok now until my next tank and I will be more careful about my measuring when the time comes.

cd

Bikeguy Joe · #4 06-23-2008, 01:18 PM

I'd be very carful about adding "75 cents worth" to an already unknown mixture....you may really mess things up.

Pablo · #5 06-23-2008, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Bikeguy Joe

I'd be very carful about adding "75 cents worth" to an already unknown mixture....you may really mess things up.

Yeah I just read that and thought the same.....I know .75$ is less than .2 gallon, but still - be careful. In a low tank of whatever mix, you could be more than cutting it in half....

crabdance · #6 06-23-2008, 02:00 PM

thanks for the input guys... maybe I should consider dumping what I have and starting over again. I don't want to mess anything up that's for sure.