On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:45:29 GMT, wrote:

"Guy King" wrote in message
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from "Weatherlawyer" contains these words:

I imagine that the self mixing modern engines pump the oil through the
crank journals and needs to be fairly fluid.

Don't know about now, but they /used/ to just dribble it into the inlet
port just downstream of the carb.


he is asking about transmission oil, not engine oil.

Oh, c'mon. Thread drift? In uk.d-i-y? Happens all the time, where sooo many
posters have this irrestible urge to air their (sometimes limited or
misleading[1]) knowledge. :-)


[1] I make no comment about the accuracy of the earlier posts - I don't
know enough about two-stroke engines to comment.

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