I have had good luck using SeaFoam to clean out the carbs on my many small
engines,,, I even was able to get a old lawn mower that hasn't run in ten
years going this year by putting some right into the gas tank before adding
any gas and letting it sit over night....then a shot of starting fluid into
the carb and she started right up...
Vapor lock has become my biggest problem of late with my boat,,, It
will run fine for 45 minutes and then stops.. You then have to sit there
with the engine cover open for 45 minutes before it will start up again,,,
repeat as needed.... Funny it's hard to get anyone to go boating with me
how... Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob
To: Robert Lang ; Shawn J. Loseke
Cc: 6pack ; Craig
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [6pack] Ethanol gasoline blends,small engines
Amazing what you can learn from Triumph Lists.
Thanks Bob Lang for mentioning small engine problems with OLD 'ethanol' mix
gasoline.
This year the mower would not start, the fuel was at least a year old.
Bad fuel was the problem. Never happened before.
Regards,
Bob
> 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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