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What Oil For 2 Stroke And Ethanol Question

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What oil do you recommend to mix for my 03 Yamaha 150 2 stroke? Synthetic, mineral? brand?

Also, do you need ethanol treatment for 2 strokes? I would assume yes, but wanted to find out. Also, what do you use for your treatment?

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I've been running mineral and semi senthitic in my 05 Merc since new. So far so good. I'm not brand loyal. As long as the oil is marine rated, I don't think it makes a difference. Seafoam in every few tanks and Stabil for any extended storage.

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I've been running mineral and semi senthitic in my 05 Merc since new. So far so good. I'm not brand loyal. As long as the oil is marine rated, I don't think it makes a difference. Seafoam in every few tanks and Stabil for any extended storage.

X2 on both parts, look close and make sure it is Marine Rated, I use super tech it's half the price of Quicksilver and Johnson/rude even in bulk.

Sloan, you don't need stabil if you add seafoam, it does the same job, pretty good stuff !!

I just started using West Marines brand of oil with no complaints. It regularly goes on sale for ~$15 dollars a gallon. After a lot of internet searches I came across a thread where the company that makes West Marine oil chimed in and talked about it. AFAIK it meets the same requirements as every other TC-W3 Oil and is actually a pretty decent oil. Just looked it up and starbrite makes the oil for West Marine.

Other than that I've just added some startron every time I add gas and its been pretty painless.

Penzoil XLF is the best oil out there for steal bore 2 strokes you should never Run 100% SYN in your steal bore outboard only in the high performance Nick motors

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I stay brand loyal because I know that Quicksilver is available everywhere, so I don't have to look around for the "Marine Rated" oil. Just laziness on my part. And Startron goes into every tank of gas.

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