Yamalube? a Must?

SimonCh · 09 March 2011, 13:58

Hey folks, just bought myself my first boat - a 5.4M Tornado with a Yamaha 90 on the back. Is it essential to use Yamalube? or is will any 2 stroke oil suffice? Im not fussed if i have to use it, just wondering!

Look forward to hours of ribbing fun - was up from Lochaline, along the Sound of Mull, to Tobermory at the weekend - great stuff!

Cheers guys

Simon

squiddy · 09 March 2011, 14:27

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Originally Posted by SimonCh

Hey folks, just bought myself my first boat - a 5.4M Tornado with a Yamaha 90 on the back. Is it essential to use Yamalube? or is will any 2 stroke oil suffice? Im not fussed if i have to use it, just wondering!

Look forward to hours of ribbing fun - was up from Lochaline, along the Sound of Mull, to Tobermory at the weekend - great stuff!

Cheers guys

Simon

Hello Simon - Welcome, I cant answer your question but just thought i'd say "hello from sunny Aberdeen"!!!!

There's not many of us on here from the north east, nearly enough for a posse now.

Devonmark35 · 09 March 2011, 15:05

What Rig are you on Simon?

jyasaki · 09 March 2011, 15:17

Yamalube isn't required. Any correctly spec'd 2-stroke oil will be fine.

jky

gotchiguy · 09 March 2011, 17:01

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Originally Posted by jyasaki

Yamalube isn't required. Any correctly spec'd 2-stroke oil will be fine.

jky

Which for any outboard is TC-W3 certified (nearly all are, but be wary of some aftermarket ones which claim to exceed the specifications but don't actually have the badge to prove it - its a little hologram shown on the bottle)

Best of luck with the new boat too!

SimonCh · 09 March 2011, 18:05

Thanks Guys, nice to join a forum that isnt full of tw*ts! lol! Where about in town you from squiddy? im Stoney! I'm adhoc mate - so tour about the rigs!

squiddy · 09 March 2011, 19:53

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Originally Posted by SimonCh

Thanks Guys, nice to join a forum that isnt full of tw*ts! lol! Where about in town you from squiddy? im Stoney! I'm adhoc mate - so tour about the rigs!

Aye? which forum was that?

STONEYYYYY! I'm around about the berryden area nowadays, used to live in banch - ory.

Hopefully see you out there, between the supply vessels.

willk · 09 March 2011, 19:56

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Originally Posted by SimonCh

Thanks Guys, nice to join a forum that isnt full of tw*ts! lol!

RIBnet isn't full of tw@ts, in fact, we have room for a few more...

SimonCh · 09 March 2011, 20:18

lol, i wasn't meaning rib forums full of twats - just forums in general! cheers for the welcome folks, no doubt see you on the water... hopefully not on the end of a rope behind a big orange boat!

squiddy · 10 March 2011, 12:07

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Originally Posted by SimonCh

hopefully not on the end of a rope behind a big orange boat!

Well I have a small 3.8M orange/red boat. Could easily give you a tow about sometime but I dont think we'd have much pace.

AHH#pG# · 15 March 2011, 08:19

Hay there guys im from fordoun just south of stony , no rib at the moment but i run a 1966
herwa plast cabin cruizer out of stony harbour in the summer , and im an FRC coxswain for an aberdeen shipping company :-)
where i get to drive RIBs for a living

also i use quicksilver in my yammy

and i know what you mean about tw@t forums im a member of several for all manner of things
bikes ,boats ,satillite,ect most are sound but the odd one jeeeeeezzzzz

Poly · 15 March 2011, 09:00

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Originally Posted by gotchiguy

Which for any outboard is TC-W3 certified (nearly all are, but be wary of some aftermarket ones which claim to exceed the specifications but don't actually have the badge to prove it - its a little hologram shown on the bottle)

Best of luck with the new boat too!

Just to clarify Gotchiguy's post - "nearly all" marine 2 strokes are TC-W3 - the stuff you can buy in your local garage, for scooters, lawnmowers, chainsaws etc is unlikely to be (and is designed to run at the higher temperature of these air cooled engines).

Jizm · 15 March 2011, 10:01

As polwart says...

Quite a bit of choice on fleabay...

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/i.html?_trkpa...&_sop=15&_sc=1

squiddy · 15 March 2011, 13:05

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Originally Posted by AHH#pG#

Hay there guys im from fordoun just south of stony , no rib at the moment but i run a 1966
herwa plast cabin cruizer out of stony harbour in the summer , and im an FRC coxswain for an aberdeen shipping company :-)
where i get to drive RIBs for a living

also i use quicksilver in my yammy

and i know what you mean about tw@t forums im a member of several for all manner of things
bikes ,boats ,satillite,ect most are sound but the odd one jeeeeeezzzzz

Another for the north east posse!!!

SimonCh · 15 March 2011, 15:52

Wow - there's 3 of us now - prepare for a flotilla to depart from Stoney harbour! Cheers for the help guys - £30 odd for a bottle of yamalube in Aberdeen, so could save myself quite a bit of cash!

squiddy · 15 March 2011, 19:03

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Originally Posted by SimonCh

Wow - there's 3 of us now - prepare for a flotilla to depart from Stoney harbour! Cheers for the help guys - £30 odd for a bottle of yamalube in Aberdeen, so could save myself quite a bit of cash!

STONEYYYYYYYYY!

4 possibly!? We also have Spartacus (breaker, breaker, alpha bravo) up in Alford which is still kind of north east, if not a touch cheuchter.

foo's yer doo's?