When I was a kid, I took a perfectly good-running ’56 Fleetwin, hooked up a tank of 50:1 EVINRUDE oil mix to it, at the recommendation of a professional O/B tech, and went about 1000 feet at WOT, before it threw a rod. Maybe if I had used JOHNSON oil, it would have been okay? I don’t think so.
Don’t feel bad, OMC sure pushed a lot of “hype” when it came to the capabilities of new and improved oils…. I remember this malarkey being pushed on us by the instructors at service school as well…. I’m convinced most of the engineers had never even seen a 56 Fleetwin, much less worked on them or run them… I always felt that engineers should take an OMC engineering history course every year….Just seems like the same mistakes were repeated again and again, even though past failures should have been a good lesson……
I guess half the problem is that none of the folks that new the history were still around to teach the course!
The other half of the problem is that the sales/cost departments ruled the place, so engineering designs were often squashed due to cost or going against that sales department…
