{"id":915,"date":"2007-05-25T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=915"},"modified":"2007-05-25T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T20:58:57","slug":"green-up-your-2-stroke-with-soybean-based-engine-oils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/green-up-your-2-stroke-with-soybean-based-engine-oils.html","title":{"rendered":"Green up your 2 stroke with soybean based engine oils?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Biodiesel<\/a>, Etc.<\/a>, Vegetable Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

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I am going to get this out of the way right off the bat: I do not know if soy-based 2 stroke engine oils are actually cleaner burning than synthetic 2 stroke engine oil or the racing-style castor bean 2 stroke oils that are still available today. What I will say, though, is that being soy based, they are made from a renewable resource, which can’t be said about petroleum-based engine oils, whether they are for 2 strokes or the more common 4 strokes. But, something recently caught my eye on a discussion board that I frequent, which was the subject of using biodiesel as a lubricant in 2 stroke engines. I got to thinking about it, and was thinking that standard vegetable oils would probably work just as well assuming the temperature was warm enough to keep them from thickening. So, I did some searching of ‘teh internets’<\/a>, (ZOMG<\/a>!) and found that there are in fact soy based oils<\/a> that are designed for 2 stroke engines. I also found that before synthetic oils were developed, castor bean oils were considered the best oils to use in 2 strokes. In fact, many people still believe that they are the best. I am not going to get into that debate, because I have no idea which is better! But, I would definitely prefer to run a bio-oil if at all possible, and after doing the research, I have found that it is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we are on the subject, does anybody have any information on the effect that using vegetable-based 2 stroke engine oils might have on the emissions of said engine? Have there been any studies comparing synthetic 2 stroke oils versus castor oil versus vegetable based oils? Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n

[Source: United Soybean Board]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Biodiesel, Etc., Vegetable Oil I am going to get this out of the way right off the bat: I do not know if soy-based 2 stroke engine oils are actually cleaner burning than synthetic 2 stroke engine oil or the racing-style castor bean 2 stroke oils that are still available today. What I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}