• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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250-500cc 2T oil

PowerKord said:
I've ready many times that Dominator does not have the anti-corrosive additives of Interceptor. But I do know people who use it casually ridden bikes no problems as far as excessive spooge or fouling or anything like that.
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I think it is all about riding style and conditions. In the NW Coast and Cascade Mountains for example there are cool temperatures, long stretches of tight single track corners, hills that are steep but technical and not long enough between switchbacks to generate much heat and long switch backed downhills. Just hard to get the temp up until just before fire season things warm up to the 90s + F. but then the woods are usually shut down shortly.:excuseme:
 
When Castrol TTS was available to me locally it was my oil of choice. My engines always looked great when I took them apart and very little smoke.
 
yep castrol tts here too, cheap compared to some $78 for 4L($60 on special) motorex/motul is like $120+ for 4L!:eek: . smells good, dyed blue for ID in fuel, full syn, available at local autoparts stores, no spooge at 32:1 either. did just get 3.78L(gallon?) of amsoil dominator to try as a lot of you guys reckon its good gear.
 
I used TTS until I blew up my 125 running it on a gravel road at the Idaho ISDE in 2011, some thought that the oil was diluted from water in the fuel at the local gas station. Same gas blew up my nephews RM65 when I got home. Oops.

After that I switched to Klotz R50 and ran it for 100 hours until I had some plug fouling issues, like 12 plugs in 100 miles. It ended up being low compression, fixed with a new ring. I had switched to Amsoil dominator to try to rule out fuel/oil.

I stuck with Amsoil for the last 100 hours or so because it is half the price of Klotz and seems to work great. 239.4 hours and the 125 is still running strong on the stock bottom end.

Later,
 
jmetteer said:
I used TTS until I blew up my 125 running it on a gravel road at the Idaho ISDE in 2011, some thought that the oil was diluted from water in the fuel at the local gas station. Same gas blew up my nephews RM65 when I got home. Oops.

After that I switched to Klotz R50 and ran it for 100 hours until I had some plug fouling issues, like 12 plugs in 100 miles. It ended up being low compression, fixed with a new ring. I had switched to Amsoil dominator to try to rule out fuel/oil.

I stuck with Amsoil for the last 100 hours or so because it is half the price of Klotz and seems to work great. 239.4 hours and the 125 is still running strong on the stock bottom end.

Later,
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I wondered and never heard what your plug fowling issue was back then.
 
I have become a believer in Maxima K2 oil mixed at 40:1 but also like Maxima Super M. I think K2 is a better product. Burns clean and smells good. Not like Maxima 927 but close. Maxma Super M does not smell like castor or even ester.
 
shawbagga said:
yep castrol tts here too, cheap compared to some $78 for 4L($60 on special) motorex/motul is like $120+ for 4L!:eek: . smells good, dyed blue for ID in fuel, full syn, available at local autoparts stores, no spooge at 32:1 either. did just get 3.78L(gallon?) of amsoil dominator to try as a lot of you guys reckon its good gear.
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Have to agree on the TTS, use to use it 20 years ago - still use it now at 40:1, runs crisp and smells good too.
 
Kyle Tarry said:
I use Maxima Super M at 40:1.

You're probably going to find as many options in this thread as you would if you browsed through the 2-stroke oil section on your favorite moto parts website. I firmly believe that any of the brand name quality oils will work fine.
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Yep and what is available in your area might play a part ...

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It seems my 08 WR250 does well at 40:1 with several different brands including the 2 shown here that are easiest to find for me. I just load up on a few Ls when I find what I like. That red-jug is not their top stuff and maybe drools a little more than their top 2t oil I tried before... That Plus 2T burns pretty well and does not smoke alot. Its what I use now as often as possible. There should be a short racing vid of my bike coming out of the gate and you can see the exhaust pretty well from the camera angle.100_0912.JPG
 
When we change the oil to gas ratio our jetting changes a little. Heat it up on the new mix and adjust your balance screw first. The balance should be between 1 to 2 turns for the pilot jet to still be ok.
 
We've been running Castrol Power 1 racing 2 stroke in my son's 2T race bike (YZ)
Only a little smoke on cold start, then nothing while running. Engine wear has been fantastic.
It is expensive here (Aus) but cheaper than eng parts....

 
Yeh but its still survival of the fittest right?
I like a bit of slack in my chain!
Not many people can rail like ronnie mac an i dont think anyone smart enough to find his videos is going to follow his set up apart from the big spanner to keep people off his lawn.
 
This thread was surprisingly a good read. Most oil threads are a waste of time,
, this however was a nice surprise.

I run 927 at 28-1 in my bikes. Always worked well for me, im a hard on the throttle wringing its neck, 215 lb rider on a 125 in sandy mx tracks though. May not work for slower less on the throttle type riding,

With that said, with how much fuel i burn through i am tempted to switch to a synthetic like amsoil dominator and run it more like 40-1 or even 50-1 to save some loot. 5.50 a gallon fuel plus the 28 dollar a bottle premix sure does add up!
 
yzrider said:
This thread was surprisingly a good read. Most oil threads are a waste of time,
, this however was a nice surprise.

I run 927 at 28-1 in my bikes. Always worked well for me, im a hard on the throttle wringing its neck, 215 lb rider on a 125 in sandy mx tracks though. May not work for slower less on the throttle type riding,

With that said, with how much fuel i burn through i am tempted to switch to a synthetic like amsoil dominator and run it more like 40-1 or even 50-1 to save some loot. 5.50 a gallon fuel plus the 28 dollar a bottle premix sure does add up!
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927 is a synthetic, but you can't beat the price of dominator. I switched from 927 and motul 800 to dominator because I can get it for under $10/ litre.
 
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