On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:55:02 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:37:17 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:20:23 -0800, "Ulysses"
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I have a Craftsman Snow Thrower (247.88190) and I have an unfortunate
problem. My son put replaced the oil with oil for my leaf blower. He
put four 3.2 ounce bottles of Craftsman Professional Synthetic Blend 2-
Cycle Engine Oil w/ fuel stabilizer (#71-36560) instead of the correct
4-cycle oil I normally use. Luckily he didn't mix it with gas and he
didn't start it up (as he couldn't figure out why it wouldn't show up
on the dip stick!). So at present I've got the blower propped up a bit
and I'm draining that oil out. I'm going to let it drain all night.
But are there any other precautions I should take before filling it up
with the correct oil? The amount he added (12-13 oz) just barely
showed up on the dip stick. Any advice would be much appreciated as I
really like this blower and want to nurse it back to machine health as
smoothly as possible. Thanks in advance.

I agree with everyone else--I wouldn't worry about it. I wouldn't even
worry too much if he'd put 2-Stroke oil in the gas--I've even seen it
recommended for boaters etc, at the end of the season, to use up 50:1 in a
four-stroke engine that will otherwise just go bad and have to be dumped. I
wouldn't use mixed gas in a fuel injection engine though.

No problem with fuel injection - it's just the catalytic convertor and
O2 sensor issues.

I had an 86 Chrysler that was ingesting about a quart of oil per tank
of gas (no leaks, no smoke). The computer was simply adjusting the
burn to use it all. That works out to around 50:1, what you would be
burning in a 2 stroke outboard.
It ran great but the price of the oil was killing me. I didn't worry
that much about changing it tho. It was always fresh.

I had an 88 that did the same. The catalytic converters were too
expensive to let that go on very long (disconnect the cat and it was
spewing blue smoke big-time). It needed valve guides replaced (second
time in 160,000km) - 3.0 Mitsu****ty engine. The 2.6 usually needed
rings when it happened on them.