What oil is best? and what ratio?

[jakethesnake]

I just bought a gallon of K2. Recently took apart a couple saws with 40:1 lucas and they were dry as a bone, was not impressed at all

That stuff is trash.

 

[jakethesnake]

The Lucas

 

[RI Chevy]

I'd like to try the Dolmar synthetic oil. Looks interesting.

 

[Steve Taylor]

All of it and as much as it will stand lol.

 

[Stump Shot]

Tried some red armor oil this winter. Made everything I put it in much"stiffer" to pull over and start. Also cold weather performance suffered. Experiment is over for me, going back to blue oil. That's as much as I can report, carry on oilers.

 

[jakethesnake]

Mixed benol with low smoke husqvarna today.

 

[Roadfxr]

Trying some Schaeffers 7000 next round of mix.

 

[huskyboy]

Tried some red armor oil this winter. Made everything I put it in much"stiffer" to pull over and start. Also cold weather performance suffered. Experiment is over for me, going back to blue oil. That's as much as I can report, carry on oilers.

Red armor didn’t blow me away either when I ran it. Was it the worst? No, far from it. It did burn clean I thought.

 

[jakethesnake]

I never tried red armor due to price. I’m really digging the cheap low smoke husqvarna oil. I’ll have a piston picture next week. Stuff is holding a tune spot on with that stuff. I don’t like Lucas or klotz benol. Lucas is trash. Benol is a little too hard to burn. Also castor doesn’t work when it’s cold. I cut in the cold most of the time. Other than those two I like about anything.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Some oil even black oil is better than no oil

 

[Lightning Performance]

Any oil even drain oil is better than no oil

 

[RI Chevy]

I cut all winter with Red Armor and did not notice any issues that with it. Worked fine. I also used VP SEF with it.

 

[jakethesnake]

I cut all winter with Red Armor and did not notice any issues that with it. Worked fine. I also used VP SEF with it.

Did you try anything else to compare it to?

 

[RI Chevy]

I also used VP SEF with VP oil in bottle added to it. That worked fine too. I ran it at about 36:1.

 

[huskyboy]

Echo power blend is just as good as red armor for less money in my findings.

 

[RI Chevy]

I bought lots of Red armor from my dealer a while back. Didn't really notice it to be anymore expensive than other oils.

 

[LowVolt]

 

[Lightning Performance]

Echo power blend is just as good as red armor for less money in my findings.

Very close. Seemed the same to me.

 

[bwalker]

Red armor is priced insanely around my area and its nothing special anyways.

 

[RI Chevy]

I run an oil cocktail to get to my 36:1 final ratio. Lol
Secret recipe. [emoji6]