Ron Schmittou wrote:
> Just curious on the list wisdom of emptying the tank and then running
> the carb dry before storage.
My other hobby is antique outboards, which are almost universally two
stroke.
Personally, I have strong opinion, but often brought up in this
discussion is that, when you run a two stroke dry on gas, you also run
it dry on oil.
For any two stroke with more than one carb, I would caution against
this, because one carb with fuel can keep the motor running, where the
other carb has none. Therefore, in a four cylinder two stroke with a top
carb and a bottom carb, the top two cylinders go dry of oil for as long
as the bottom carb can keep the motor running.
For a smaller two stroke, that time is a fair bit less, but still...
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