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Originally Posted by Kurt505
I run a 2 stroke outboard, yesterday I was cruising across the lake, everything was fine, then my motor got slower and slower until it shut off (about a 5 second process). After I lifted the motor to make sure there wasn’t a rat nest of line or weeds on the prop I tried starting it up again. First couple times it wouldn’t turn over, then it turned over and fired up so I slowly idled about 200yds to where I was going to fish. While I was trolling with the electric motor I opened up my oil tank/battery compartment and noticed my oil tank moved and my oil line was pinched, restricting about 90% of the oil supply.
I moved the oil tank and straightend out the line. I started out cruising at 1/2 throttle, then 3/4 throttle, then wide open, it ran fine after that. Did I luck out and avoid damage or is there something I should look for?
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If it's running fine you are likely lucky newer 2 strokes rune pretty lean so if you didn't force anything you might be alright. This is why I never trusted oil injection on a two stroke and preferred to mix the fuel manually .
I had an old (1958) Evinrude I seized up on the lake (tried to save a buck with regular 2 stroke oil.).After it cooled down it freed up and I made sure to run marine 2 stroke oil after that and it ran fine for years after that, probably still going .