Re: M_Boats: Another sailing adventure

[Bill & Gigi Day]

It sounds like Sandra is describing filling the crankcase on her Honda 
motor.  The main clue is that it only holds 8 ounces and needs a funnel 
or squirt bottle to fill.  I'm not sure why she would need to fill it on 
the water, but the sight window for the oil crankcase is hard to see, 
and when the engine died she may have looked at the sight glass and 
decided it needed more oil.  If the crankcase is overfilled (and that's 
easy to do) the motor will smoke and run roughly.  I'm curious to know 
if the engine uses a lot of oil.  It might be old and have leaky rings 
or something.  I agree with Connie that if everything is normal, you 
only need to top up the oil level at the beginning of the season and 
check it occasionally during the year.

From Sandra's description, though, I didn't get the impression that she 
put oil in the fuel tank.

Bill Day
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Hi Sandra,
I hope you didn't really put oil in the Honda outboard fuel tank.
The lubricating oil is in the closed crankcase, and most likely that
doesn't need filling or attention for a whole season.
The ONLY thing you put in the fuel tank of a 4 cycle HONDA outboard is
clean gasoline - not a drop of oil!
A Honda engine is a four cycle engine.  The lubricating oil for the
engine is in the closed crankcase.  The engine only requires gasoline to
operate.  No gasoline / oil mixture.
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A two cycle outboard engine is different.  

It requires a mixture of gasoline and oil - the usual ratio is about 50:1
- and this fuel/oil mixture is what goes in the fuel tank.  The oil is
mixed with the gasoline which then provides the necessary lubrication for
the two cycle engine.
Happy sailing
Connie
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