It sounds like Sandra is describing filling the crankcase on her Honda motor. The main clue is that it only holds 8 ounces and needs a funnel or squirt bottle to fill. I'm not sure why she would need to fill it on the water, but the sight window for the oil crankcase is hard to see, and when the engine died she may have looked at the sight glass and decided it needed more oil. If the crankcase is overfilled (and that's easy to do) the motor will smoke and run roughly. I'm curious to know if the engine uses a lot of oil. It might be old and have leaky rings or something. I agree with Connie that if everything is normal, you only need to top up the oil level at the beginning of the season and check it occasionally during the year. From Sandra's description, though, I didn't get the impression that she put oil in the fuel tank. Bill Day chbenneck@juno.com wrote:
Hi Sandra,
I hope you didn't really put oil in the Honda outboard fuel tank.
The lubricating oil is in the closed crankcase, and most likely that doesn't need filling or attention for a whole season.
The ONLY thing you put in the fuel tank of a 4 cycle HONDA outboard is clean gasoline - not a drop of oil!
A Honda engine is a four cycle engine. The lubricating oil for the engine is in the closed crankcase. The engine only requires gasoline to operate. No gasoline / oil mixture.
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A two cycle outboard engine is different.
It requires a mixture of gasoline and oil - the usual ratio is about 50:1 - and this fuel/oil mixture is what goes in the fuel tank. The oil is mixed with the gasoline which then provides the necessary lubrication for the two cycle engine.
Happy sailing
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