Jay, thank you so much for your guidance. I will ditch the amzsoil and start using the pennzoil, then re-check the plugs. I'm buying my fuel at the highest volume station in the county. The fuel is fresh daily. It was recommended that I run Kwickcleen from Mercury in every tank. Should I run the Kwickcleen maybe every third run or so?
Allen
You know, the reason we created TCW-3 oil was mainly because of the detergent package which cleans your engine automatically, so the additives you are buying are really not necessary, products like quickcleen, carbon guard, and ring free are not really necessary, those products are nothing but a high concentration of ingredients of the detergent packages found in TCW-3oils and were designed for use in older engines which already have carbon problems. The people who sell some of these "wonder additives" always recommend you use them, they sell them. The carbon removal products do work, we tested most of them real world.
As far as the oil goes just keep in mind as alot of people like to promote aftermarket oils, those oil manufacturers are not paying for the possible warranty issues, so, anytime you want to get the highest quality oil for your engine, buy it from someone has to supply you with the best product, the engine manufacturer, they are the ones who paid all the money to design, manufacture, as well as create the standards for 2 stroke oils, the aftermarket just follows along. As well during independent testing it was verified they would generally meet the specifacations only minimally.
The reason I asked about the fuel you use is. While working at OMC I was a part of a field issue with a similar problem. We had engines that were having the same issues, clear Jello in the carbs and cylinders.
What we identified was the fuel was gelling because the fuel had a given additive in it, in this case it was Valvetech, when by itself caused no issue, but when mixed with oil at 50 to 1 it turned to clear jello causing the carbs to need cleaning constantly. You could scrape it off the carb parts and it would turn to dust, you could look in the cylinders and see it, leave the plugs out and in 2 minutes it was gone, kinda weird, but when we had the local dealer stop using VT the problem went away.
