2-stroke oil replacement

[Vian]

Hi all!

I recently came accross something that i have never seen or heard from before.

My work send some of theyr employees to do a skippers course on their rubberduck that gets used for oil spills ect.

We spent 5 days on the water with 8 hours of running a day for sea time and the course was given to 5 other groups as well so before us on our boat.

What i saw was that they were using diesel engin oil in the outboard motors (2 Evenrude ETEC 50hp) where the 2 stroke was suppose to go into the self mix bottle.

the engins was running perfect with little to no smoke and smell. when i querried the sittuation the guy said that the person who he bought the boat from who is a outboard mechanic advised him on using engin oil instead of 2-stoke oil and sofar no hassels!

Has anybody ever heard something like that before?

 

[Bat-ass]

Evinrude Etec's run on a premium proprietary Evenrude oil called XD 100 (honey color) or XD 50 (blue color). It's probably the XD100 that they were running. It's extremely expensive and to keep the cost down a bit, they bring it into the country in drums and decant it to sell. Etec's are direct injection 2 strokes and the oil is also directly injected into the cylinder barrel. Great motors and technology, but sadly they have been poorly represented in SA. Spares and servicing is a nightmare.
On the other hand.... If he is using engine oil in that Etec, keep us posted on the outcome!!! It could turn into an expensive mistake.