2 Stroke Oil & 2 Cycle Oil

[andrew_melbourne]

Hello,

I've just purchased two cycle oil for my Mercury 2 stroke outboard. The sales people at BCF Epping said that it is all the same. Is this true?

I've done a bit of a Google search and couldn't find any deffinitive answer.

As always, thanks in advance.

PS: The brand was Quicksilver

Regards,
Andrew.

[drew 2]

2 stroke & 2 cycle mean the same thing. If you have quick silver oil, it is a genuine mercury product and will be fine in your merc. If you look on the label it will have TC3-W compliant written on it somewhere, the TC stands for 2 cycle (yank terminology for 2 stroke) 3 means it is the third "generation" more environmentally friendly,less smoke,better burning etc. The W stands for water cooled. Hope that helps and happy boating :thumbsup:

[andrew_melbourne]

Hey Drew,

Thanks for the detailed response and helping me out. Checked the label and everything is all there.

Thanks mate.

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[drew 2]

No probs mate,it's also not a good idea to mix two different brands of oil into the same tank of fuel better off running till empty or draining it and starting a fresh if possible.

[chocolatemoose]

mercury has dropped the quick silver brand "get it. mercury/quicksilver?" so everything called quicksilver is now caleld mercury
so quicksilver oil is mercury precision lubricants now

sub 100hp 2 stroke use "premium"
over 100hp or older engines use "premium plus"
optimax 2 stroke use "..dfi/optimax"

just another handy hint from your resident genius