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Old 06-17-2019, 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by jungleboy View Post
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 .
Thanks man, that gives me a sense of relief. I’m going to try and get out for a rip one day soon on a popular lake just to see if all is good (it should be), that way if it breaks down I’ll be more likely to get a tow back to shore, lol.
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