Lucas ethanol fuel treatment
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02-20-2012, 07:54 AM
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#12
02-20-2012, 08:34 AM
My Stihl dealer sells avation gas. NO ethanol and 100 octane. $6.50 a gallon but I use it in all of my two cycle machines. Not happy about it but not going to have my engines sieze up.
#13
02-20-2012, 08:52 AM
Ethanol presents very few problems to any engine manufactured after 1999. In the E10 formulation as long as the fuel is used within about 6 weeks. If you leave E10 fuel over 6 weeks then it is probably a good idea to use a fuel stabilizer like Marine Stabil which is made to work with E10 or E15 fuel and prevent fuel separation gelling issues. If you have a bike older than 1999 I would use stabilizer all of the time. Marine Stabil contains a fuel systems cleaner as well that keeps deposits off the fuel system internals. I have stored boats with 250 gallons of E10 in them for 24 months and then fired them right up with no adverse effects using Marine Stabil. You can get it at any WalMart.
#15
02-20-2012, 08:55 AM
I'd like to know also, that crap keeps fuking up my power equipment! And if someone
wants to say use stabil or whatever, I already use that stuff, it doesn't help with
the deposits from that crap they call gas these days.
My weedwacker was so clogged up with hard tannish deposts, it wouldn't even prime the carb anymore, push the bulb, and it won't come back up. Cleaned the tan crap out of the passages, and then it was fine, for a month or so. The next time I went to use it, the same damn thing, clogged up again, PITA!! I hate to think of what it's doing to my harley carb!
wants to say use stabil or whatever, I already use that stuff, it doesn't help with
the deposits from that crap they call gas these days.
My weedwacker was so clogged up with hard tannish deposts, it wouldn't even prime the carb anymore, push the bulb, and it won't come back up. Cleaned the tan crap out of the passages, and then it was fine, for a month or so. The next time I went to use it, the same damn thing, clogged up again, PITA!! I hate to think of what it's doing to my harley carb!
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02-20-2012, 09:16 AM
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#17
02-20-2012, 09:22 AM
Star-Tron works great! Solved all of my Ethanol related problems. I pick it up at the Boat place. Guy at west Marine told me that Star Tron outsells Stabil Marine 10 to 1 all day long. Good Stuff.
#19
02-20-2012, 10:18 AM
Has anyone ever seen proof, real proof, that ANY additive actually does something good for an engine? I'm over 60. Been around all kinds of engines all my life and have yet to see any real evidence that these additives do anything except make money for the people who sell them.
#20
02-20-2012, 10:50 AM
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Don't leave fuel in your equipment. If it sits for more than a month I drain it or use marine stabil. All we have is ethanol in the gas here. We have had it for several years. The only thing I have noticed is that fuel lines catch hell unless they are alcohol resistant.
I'd like to know also, that crap keeps fuking up my power equipment! And if someone
wants to say use stabil or whatever, I already use that stuff, it doesn't help with
the deposits from that crap they call gas these days.
My weedwacker was so clogged up with hard tannish deposts, it wouldn't even prime the carb anymore, push the bulb, and it won't come back up. Cleaned the tan crap out of the passages, and then it was fine, for a month or so. The next time I went to use it, the same damn thing, clogged up again, PITA!! I hate to think of what it's doing to my harley carb!
wants to say use stabil or whatever, I already use that stuff, it doesn't help with
the deposits from that crap they call gas these days.
My weedwacker was so clogged up with hard tannish deposts, it wouldn't even prime the carb anymore, push the bulb, and it won't come back up. Cleaned the tan crap out of the passages, and then it was fine, for a month or so. The next time I went to use it, the same damn thing, clogged up again, PITA!! I hate to think of what it's doing to my harley carb!