need some quick help

[FLATHEAD]

I just bought some super tech oil. The bottle says for 50-1 mix 6 ounce to 6 gal gas. I currently have been using pennzoil premium outboard and the bottle calls for 16 ounces to 6 gal of gas. my question is will it matter if the two mixtures get blended together? I want to top of the tank but it stills has about 2 gallon of the pennzoils mix in it.

 

[jhreed]

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Hey, seems like you would add 4 oz's oil to the four gallons of new gas added to the 6 gallon tank. Most 2-cycle oils are compatible so there shouldn't be any problem. Good luck...

 

[Yepblaze]

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50:1 is 50:1<br /><br />If you used 2.6oz (aprox) per gallon of one brand you still use the same amount of another brand to achieve the ratio of 50:1 Perhaps the 1 in the 16 oz. to 6 gallons was not printed correctly.<br /><br />If you do decide to go one oz per gallon it might cause serious problems.

 

[JB]

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Ahoy, Flahthead.<br /><br />There are 128oz. in a gallon, 768oz. in 6 gallons.<br /><br />To get a 50:1 mix you need 2.56oz. oil per gallon and 15.3oz. per six gallons, as Yepblaze explains.<br /><br />It is easy to add 1 pint (16oz.) to a 6 gal. tank. You get about a 48:1 mix, which is what all modern, non-oil-injected engines use. That is the correct mix. Yepblaze mis-stated or typo-ed that 16oz. was misprinted. It is the other way around.<br /><br />Either you misread the numbers on the SuperTech bottle or it is misprinted. Six ounces of oil per 6 gallons would be a 128:1 mix.<br /><br />The mix stays the same when you change oils.<br /><br />Good luck.

 

[rickdb1boat]

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Perhaps the 1 in the 16 oz. to 6 gallons was not printed correctly.<br /><br />

C'mon JB, How is that "Mis-stated? It simply means that the "1" was missing...

 

[JB]

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Hmmm. We read that differently, I think.<br /><br />The statement is quite unclear. The "16oz. in 6 gallons" was not printed, correctly or otherwise, on the Supertech bottle. It was printed, correctly, on the Pennzoil bottle.<br /><br />Because he referred to the "16oz. in 6 gallons statement" it is reasonable to assume that he is referring to the time it was printed, not to the time it wasn't printed.<br /><br />It was the "6oz. in 6 gallons" statement that was printed in error.<br /><br />The above orgy of nitpicking is the result of years of editing technical manuals for clarity. Sorry. Old habits die hard.

 

[Yepblaze]

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We used to call it bench racing. We all sit around doing what-ifs outloud.

 

[FLATHEAD]

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You guys are right the bottle is misprinted. It should read 16 ounces to 6.25 gal. of gas.