On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Shawn J. Loseke wrote:
> The ethanol blends do 'go bad' much quicker than older fuels without it. So
> storage can be a problem. All of our fuel in Northern Colorado is 10% ethanol
> year round. Your car should run fine on it. However, if you begin having vapor
> lock problems, you can thank that 10% blend.
Just as a random data point... the local small engine repair place has
lots to say about the 10% ethanol fuel. But hte takehome for me was that
they pretty much say _throw out_ fuel that is older than a month because
"it'll be bad".
They don't go on to say exactly _how_ to accomplish this, but they get a
LOT of work fixing fuel system problems on small engines because of the
reformulated fuel.
So, instead of having a 5 gallon container of fuel for the various engines
I use to maintain my "estate", I'm buying a gallon at a time and sharing.
This sucks for 2 strokes, but I'm down to replacing fuel filters every 10
hours instead of every hour or so with the chainsaw. Plus I keep about 10
spare fuel filters in the garage, "just in case".
regards,
rml
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