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| I would say that's your deal right there. "Never got above trolling speed."
I throw our old 6hp two-lung, two-cycle engine on my boat in springtime for a trolling kicker for walleye trolling. That thing pukes out a snuff tin-sized pile of puke on the garage floor after a night on the water. Its a 89ish vintage Johnson. The puke resembles lower unit oil that's had water beaten into it.
There is no mistaking the smell of 80/90 weight lube.. Swab yer finger in there. If you gag, its a seal going out. If it smells like an exhaust pipe, its unburnt oil. No need for getting wrenches out if its the latter.
I try to run the junk out of my motor at the end of each night by running the kicker wide open for several minutes.....but the goo after hours of idle speeds must build up in the exhaust ports and it just eventually drips out. Your exhaust is cooled by water, which is why it appears white-ish.
Welcome to the wonderful world of idling two-cycle engines.......they were made to be beat, not babied. You could try running 100:1 instead of your normal ratio, or going with Amsoil or one of those. I run my stuff pretty thin as it is, because that's all this little engine ever does is idle. I've not found a way around the daily pile 'o puke, if this is what you're doing with your engine.
-Eric
Edited by muskie-addict 7/7/2011 11:30 PM
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