Grandfather, was a small engine mechanic for some years amongst other things.
He had rebuilt engines well past my years that still ran like a top after his death.
Can't say of the benefits because I've never two of anything to do a control with measurements or had to rebuild anything I've done but I'll take my chances.
Well then Ill help ya out.
First I'm not here to impress or put down anyone, I very much enjoy helping in my area's of expertise,and expertise I have.
formely schooled, dues paid as a technician from small engine thru gas and Diesel, Perkins and IH were my specialties along with both Eaton and Vickers Hydraulics Motors and Pumps, Kart champ, drag race, mx, blah, blah, blah
Not much of a living being a grease monkey so its were it was at was a Manufacture in Motorsports.
A very high end piston company, product development, field engineering, national race support.
You see those guys at the races in the garages standing around the car, bike, boat, whatever with those cool shirts on? Im one of those guys,
I travel providing both technical and sales seminars of my product to various distributors sales teams. I teach it.
When you pick up the installation instructions, mostly likely I wrote those are had a part in those, so ya I write the Book.
I could spend weeks on just one products to improve ring seal. I eat sleep and breath, rings types, Cylinder compositions, many different turned shapes of the piston, Ring land flatness,radial depth blah, blah again.
So too adding any type of oil to the gas for any reason. here are the facts.
Weither its a 09 Don Deere or your late model Scoot adding oil of any kind to your fuel will Guarantee a percentage of Cylinder Glaze, that leads to a percentage of Ring Seal loss, yes it will start and run ok but will never be what It could be if you hadn't done that, the only cure is to remove the Cylinder and Brake the Glaze with a Nylon Flex Brush Hone and Install new Rings.
Here is something else even worse that you are doing doing oil to gas on a Fixed Jet carb, and this is Beginner entrance exam for beginner small engine class Groups "A" Room #101, When you add that oil you have now replaced Fuel with oil and Leaned out you Mixture, She will run Hot and on the verge of engine killing Detonation by doing so.
You Spark plug will Not show you this because it is showing the Oil you have in your gas.
Try going from 50:0-1 to 20:0-1 in a Unforgiving Two Stroke were that Crank is Not running in a bath of oil, She will Seize the Piston in short order by Adding more Oil to the Fixed jet carb, and they bounce around dumbfounded of how with More oil did it Seize. cuz ya replaced Fuel with oil.
The whole idea of More and thicker oil for Break in or whatever is severely outdated and flawed, even back in the day with a proper finish on the cylinder, just the wrong direction to go.
Nothing short of Barnyard Barbarizim..
If anyone worked for me and did or advocated such thing they would be fired on the spot as they haven't enough smarts to work on a Bicycle.
Such practices should stop and surely not be taught again to the unknowing..
Take this with a grain of salt and chalk it up to ya learned something really valuable and laugh off what gramps taught.
