42etus

My Feedback: (2)

A friend has a Thunder Tiger F-75 4 stroke that has never seemed to produce the power that a 75 should. In talking with him, he tells me that he is running fuel with 30% oil. (He adds oil to bring it up to 30%) He said that is what the instructions called for. I looked up the manual for the engine on the 'net and sure enough, it calls for 30% oil and 15%-20% nitro. That 30 % oil seems to me to be way excessive. It seems that with that much oil in the fuel there is that much less nitro and methenol for the engine to burn, hence less power produced. So having never owned a Thuder Tiger myself, I ask all those of you that do own them; do you run fuel with 30% oil or do you use the 18% or 20% stuff that the rest of us use.

Campgems

I'll bet that if you ran a tank of Omega 15% through it, it would purr like a kitten. That's about as rich an oil mix as there is, and it's 18% oil with a mix of castor and synthetic.

I'm guessing that 30% oil was just for break in. My Magnum recomended 20%. I mixed a gallon of fuel three years ago and use it for the first three or four tanks in new engines. I'll bet it ready to become a weed killer now though.

Don

djlyon

I think their manual has a slight misprint, mixing up the 30 and 20.

They recommend running it on 30% oil and breaking it in on 20% oil.

Denis

XJet

That section of the manual is a mess!

So in that little lot we're told to use 30% oil but 20% for break-in. Duh?

Given the spelling mistakes and bad grammar, it would appear that TT has gotten someone working in the company cafeteria to write the instructions for this engine.

Just break it in with 20% oil and switch to a good quality 2-stroke fuel with a castor/synth blend.

I run my TT91FS on a fuel with 12% Coopers Plus C oil and 10% nitro, it runs very, very nicely with that and has clocked up a few hours now without any wear or other issues.

Ed_Moorman

My Feedback: (1)

I own a Thunder Tiger .75 4-stroke and it runs fine on Omega 10% or 15% standard fuel. I normally bump the oil content up a little during a bench break-in, but I think that 30% isway too much for normal running. We used to run the older 4-strokes on 12%-14% oil fuel.

I agree with the other answer. Buy some regular 10% or 15% and run a gallon through the engine. See how it runs after that.