Redline oil...new question.

spectra I use yamalube 2r on my yz 250 and was out riding one day and had to borrow some gas. I was running 40:1 pump gas and the gas I borrowed was 32:1 pump gas with yamalube. I noticed a big difference the bike ran leaner and had alot more snap.

Rich I was thinking of changing oils this year. Was just wondering what your experience was with the mobil mx2t I was leaning towards dumond tech but I have to get it shipped to me and its not cheap on the other hand my local auto parts store has the mx2t for fairly cheap.

Okay you had to go and mention TiN coated piston rings diddent ya. Since I dont know the difference between those and regular rings you will have to answer another question.

I've been running the Redline Two-Stroke Racing Oil and no problems with carb jets (brass) here. I know everyone here don't seem to like the Redline Oil. I am not the expert everyone else here seems to be but it works fine for me. Redline uses the best base stock there is (polyol esters). I'm not sure but I don't think the cheaper MX2T uses this more expensive base stock. I also think there is lots of good oils and I am sure MX2T is also very good.

Now maybe you can enlighten me on why it costs $200 to change carb jets? Also maybe it was a something in the fuel that was hard on the carb brass.

Also anyone else having good luck with the Redline Racing Oil without there carb melting like an ice cube? Maybe try soaking a new brass jet in straight Redline Oil and Redline premix and see what happens.

Replay

BTW: several of my friends also use Redline Racing Oil, and I have no connection with Redline.

Redline Racing oil takes some time to do it's damage to the jets and engine internals. I also used Redline Racing oil with great results right up until the time the corrosion caused a very premature engine failure. Even my jets looked good for a while. Redline racing oil has issues with moisture in the fuel. Before you say that your fuel has no moisture content, think again. Moisture in the atmosphere finds it's way into fuel mixed with R R oil. It then forms black looking, non soluable globs at the bottom of the tank, not good. I track engine hours on my equipment (my aircraft background) and the net result is that R R oil reduced engine life, in particular the bottom ends, of 2 of my enignes.

I suggest using any other quality 2 stroke oil. My current fav is Mobil MX2t, I have had very good results with it.

Chris

Thanks for taking the time to inform us of your experiences Chris. I'm not so hard headed that I won't change oils if needed, and I am sure all fuels have some water in them, most a lot more then we would like. I would apprecate it if you let us know how long before you had to rebuild the bottom ends and what all was bad, lower connecting rod and pin maybe? Also does your motors see a lot of hard use like racing? I would like to know what the damage was and what all had corrosion.
I havn't had any problem with the black looking, non soluable globs that you mentioned, in fact Redline Oil stays mixed really good for me. Also I know one guy thats been running nothing but Redline Racing Oil for over 2 yrs and his tear downs have all good + everything has been really clean, even the power valve. Maybe Redline has made some changes? When was you using the Redline Oil.
You seem like an intelligent well informed person that truly had bad experences with Redline Oil, I am just trying to understand why 3 or 4 well informed ppl here has had such bad experences while others have had such good experences with it.
Again thanks for your input,
Replay (James)
BTW: I have only been using R R Oil for about 4 months. So I am no expert on it, I just liked what I saw and heard from local ppl. Yep, now I am looking at my mix, in my tank, at my jets, no tear down here yet but I started using the oil with a freash rebuild top and bottom. So I guess unless I change oils I am a guinny pig.... LOL

my friend has been using redline in his bike for years now has never had a problem with anything.