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Old Jan 10, 2025 | 11:38 AM
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Two stroke oil for lubricity?

I had read some years ago that it's good to add a little 2-stroke oil to the fuel to help with increasing lubricity due to the lack of sulphur. I was told the ideal way was to dump in one of those little bottles of oil that you would mix into a gallon of gas for your chainsaw. I did a few times but then got out of the habit.

Now I have several bottles of Lucas snowmobile 2-stroke oil. I was wondering if this was okay to use? And is the best ratio still one of those little bottles' worth? I have the 35 gal tank.

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Old Jan 10, 2025 | 01:46 PM
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I would not worry too much about the ratio. You could add a full QT when filling up your tank rather than have a half full QT floating around in the bed of the truck waiting to leak.
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Old Jan 29, 2025 | 06:47 AM
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Old Apr 26, 2026 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by oliver foster
I would not worry too much about the ratio. You could add a full QT when filling up your tank rather than have a half full QT floating around in the bed of the truck waiting to leak.
This.. The small bottles come in 16oz, use one of them like TCw3 outboard oil, using 16-32 wont hurt nothing, I have ran gallons of this stuff over the years, still have original CAT.
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