On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:11:16 -0500, Waynemak wrote:
When the throttle is "closed" it is still pulling fuel/oil, if it didn't the
engine wouldn't run.

Yes, but it's pulling fuel/oil at "idle" rate, but if the engine is turning
road rate, you're starving the system for oil.

Outboards have far more HP than a Saab 2 stroke ever
had and they don't need to keep spinning to lub things up.

Aren't outboards these days 4-stroke, or at least oil injected? I'm
saying it's a real phenomenon and a concern, not the absolute only way
that things ever work.