1987 honda elite heavy smoke

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1987 honda elite heavy smoke

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ok my 87 elite is running but its puttin out alot of grey smoke from the exaust excesive amounts of grey smoke. i need some help here.
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what kind of oil you running...... it has to be 2 cycle injector oil
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yeah, if someone puts normal car oil in there it will smoke like crazy.
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it is 2 stroke oil in there. i think it was cause it hasent ran all winter cause i rode it around and the smoke cleared up and there is little smoke commin out the exaust now more normal to the amount that should be commin out of there.
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Post by Kenny_McCormic »

Cheap/fossil oil will do that.
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