Can/should I use TC-W3 oil?

[don't sink]

How about West Marine Premium 2-Cycle TC-W3 Engine Oil? Its on sale for $12.99/ gallon!

There is so much debate about oils that I am completely lost! I will be premixing due to oil injection system failure. 01 Utipia 210 carb.

 

[rookie101]

Whats wrong with the oil injection pump? You'll use a lot less oil and your spark plugs will last a lot longer if you fix it rather than going premix. As for the oil, I generally don't like cheap oil. I've found it tends to foul plugs a lot faster and can make for hard starts. Having said that I have no knowledge about the West Marine oil though, so I can't say one way or the other how it will burn.

You do need to run the TC-W3 oil, but I only run the Quicksilver Premium in my Optimax. It's 55 bucks a gallon around here, but with the injection only supplying 100:1 at idle I only burn through about a gallon or a gallon and a half a season, so the price really doesn't matter.

Aaron:cheers:

 

[don't sink]

Have yet to investigate what issues are plaging the oil injection. I have heard of so many systems going bad I figured it would be easier and better piece if mind if I went premix. I think I will stick with the Quicksilver its $29 so thats not too bad.