Stabil
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Make sure if you add it to your tank that you run the motor a bit. You want the stabilizer to get into the fuel lines and carb not just in the tank. This way when you start it next season there wont be any issues. Todays gas sucks.
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If it gets over 50* I try to ride. I have only had it a month now but I topped it off last time I rode it. Finding gas without ethanol is hard to do. I guess I have rode 4-5 times and only have 60 miles on it.
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Jim
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I've used "seafoam" brand for years, it's a cleaner & a stabilizer. Add as directed then ride it long enough to get up to running temperature to circulate through all components. Remember the more gas you have in the tank the less room for moisture to build. If you ride every couple of weeks just remember to top off with gas on your way home.
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Here's the question. Does your fuel contain ethanol?
If it does not, then stabil or seafoam is the greatest thing there is.
If your fuel contains ethanol. No snake oil made will keep the fuels blended together after 30 days it starts to separate, by 45 it has.
Yes stabil marine says its for ethanol fuels.
They Lie.
After the fuel separates, the gas goes to the top, the water to the bottom, with the ethanol in the middle. Nothing humanly possible can mix them back together. Ever had a carton of milk go bad?
Just shake it up and drink it down.
If my bikes sat all winter like my mowers do. Id leave them be, and drain the system in the spring.
Thats what we do, about 4000 engines a year.
If it does not, then stabil or seafoam is the greatest thing there is.
If your fuel contains ethanol. No snake oil made will keep the fuels blended together after 30 days it starts to separate, by 45 it has.
Yes stabil marine says its for ethanol fuels.
They Lie.
After the fuel separates, the gas goes to the top, the water to the bottom, with the ethanol in the middle. Nothing humanly possible can mix them back together. Ever had a carton of milk go bad?
Just shake it up and drink it down.
If my bikes sat all winter like my mowers do. Id leave them be, and drain the system in the spring.
Thats what we do, about 4000 engines a year.
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I throw a little seafoam in now and then even though ride most everyday .. Probably not needed but figured a little cleaner through the injectors or carb and fuel system as a whole, sure won't harm anything ..
