Pertol/gasoline with 2-stroke oil - disposal route

I just ran mine through my car, poured it in just before filling up.

No problems, and nothing noticable in the exhaust, either.

Allen

Weed whacker. Leaf blower. Your own or a neighbors.

Sell it to another boating buddy, there are sure to be a few around down at the docks.

Or give it away free to some certain CR4 posters, they could blow something up with it.

blend it into the petrol/gasoline supply to the 4-stroke engine (though at what maximum oil concentration?)

one liter of two stroke oil to 40 liters gasoline

Use it as charcoal lighter for your barbecue. It's just about the same thing, unless you used bean oil!

use 'bean-o'

Every engineer considers them-self a mechanic and every mechanic just wants to get laid.

smile, say the first thing that fills the mind and necessity will fill the blanks....

Necessity never fills the blanks, and I never shoot blanks!

And not having many kids.... means he he a bit too careful, or is busy with his can of gasoline

How can you be so sure there aren't a clutch of little vermin running around somewhere? Don't blame me if your children cry out to you in the night. That's what they get their allowance for!

Allowance? the only allowance I give is the ability to breathe a little longer, or blow stuff up in a big way...

Hey, I'll get rid of the gasoline for you, I have a few rabbit holes to "fumigate"...

forget route three and anything similar.

Best method is to fill your 12 litre tank with straight petrol and run it through your engine; after the new engine is run in, as the oil will stop the rings bedding in properly.

Oil mix is normally either 25:1 or 40:1 depending on the oil and the machine. I'd guess your mix is probably 40:1 which when diluted to the twelve litre mark will come to somehwere round 160:1 which is way to lean to foul the plugs. even 25:1 will dilute to 100:1 which is pretty thin oil.

Do NOT use it for your barby!!! petrol burns as a vapour and vapourises readily at room temperature. YOU WILL EXPLODE!!!!

Only if you're barbecuing in an enclosed room!

Why don't you just give it or sell it to someone that has a 2-stroke marine engine?

That's the favourite.

It has the same value-per-unit-volume as Stella Artois (usual disclaimer), which is a useful unit of currency along the river!

Oh yeah! I forgot! For you guys it's either putt-putt-putt down a river or out to the ocean... No real lakes to speak of, right?

PWSlack

Last option seems best, throw in another 1% mix (as most 2 stroke motorcycles have this ratio(synthetic)) Remember never to mix mineral based with synthetic.

Well thats my vote

That's an interesting statement, considering here if you ask for synthetic, they'll ask you if you want pure synthetic or synthetic blend!!!

Ha ha...proves a big difference from 1st to 3rd world countries

PWslack,

Any of those, however, I'd go for #4 in preference.

It is, after all, only 3.5litres. When I read the initial thread description I though you may have had a problem with hundreds of litres.

Cheers,
Stu

Just burn it in a regular 4 stroke engine, for that matter,use it in the new boat engine. it wont hurt it or foul the plugs too bad. Older engines or engines without the modern emissions control systems are better for this purpose, I am not sure how the oil admix would fare with a modern engine's catalytic converter/emissions control system, so to be safe, I'd use it in a lawn mower or older vehicle rather than a brand new one.

Catalytic converters are used in boats too?

Bwire,

You're right, he's wrong, they're not. Yet.

It's all coming. And the expense.

Cheers,

Stu.

Oh, just suck it up and drink the damn stuff, already!!!

Not straight, of course. You'll need a mixer.

Tastes bl***y awful.

Stu

I assume you bought this fuel some weeks ago.

I suggest you auction it.

Just dump it in the tank of the 4 stroker and go.

The engine won't care. The only possible effect would be fouling of the plugs but you are only talking about 3 1/2 l. By the time you dump that into a tank of gas the percentage of oil will be trivial.... you might even have more water in the tank than oil!

Several years ago I was at home and realized my van was hard on empty - the gage didn't even come up to Empty.

I had about 5 gal of mixed gas and poured it into the van and down the road I went. I couldn't even tell the difference.

I would not even consider blending it with the heating oil (kerosene). I doubt the oil burner would like the gasoline lest you burn the house down.

It is too bad the 2 strokers are being legislated out of existance. I seriously doubt it will make much difference in the water quality of the lakes and rivers they are run on because in reality the oil used in mixed gas is very light and what gets through unburned in the exhaust will disapate.

Travis