ORIGINAL: alan0899
G'day Mate,
Quote: Even Morgans themselves say that you should use their Pink (castor/synth blend) oil in an ABC engine. End quote:
Of course they say that, they want to sell more oil, you need to use around 25% of the red oil in a aircraft engine, because it was originally designed as Heli fuel.
No mate, not the red the *pink*. It's 70% synth, 30% castor. The red is their multi-viscosity heli-oil, you don't want to use that at all in an aircraft engine.
And you can use the pink oil at 17%-20% just like the blue. That Coolpower blue is really not a good oil for ABCs. I've done side-by-side comparisons and CP blue is a pretty crappy oil when compared to other fully synth oils like of Coopers, Motul Micro, EDL, Aerosave/Aerosynth, etc.
In the USA they use it in the fuel that's called Coolpower (it's green) and lots of folks call it "cruel power" for a very good reason.
I use the coolpower blue in everything 2 strokes & 4 strokes, ringed, ABL, ABC, whatever, if you run any of them too lean, or don't have your tank setup correctly, they will let you down, no matter what oil you use.
Funny that I've *never* had an engine failure using the more advanced synthetics, despite deliberately trying to provoke one through setting the needle so lean it would hardly keep runnning on one occasion.
By comparison, a fellow club-member switched to CP blue and had to replace the bearings in nearly all his motors within weeks they just rusted away.