Laurie's right about the stabilizers. A few decades ago, when I was washing
airplanes to pay for flying lessons, I used the occasional tank of 115 purple
and 105 green avgas, which was then liberally lead-laced. Good stuff! Back
then it was about the same price as Sunoco 260, and better than today's
"104-Plus" in the bottle.
- Bob Mann
SPL311RDST@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/28/02 2:07:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> neffster189@adelphia.net writes:
>
> > >use a less volatile gasoline
> > > (This one is out of my control I believe, but is there an additive
> > >that will make the gas less volatile)
>
> This reminds me of something that came up on last weeks "Car Talk" - they had
> a caller who was worried that she had never emptied out her gas tank from 10
> yrs ago--- she kept topping it off - never reaching the under 1/2 tank mark.
> They brought up the fact that she may ultimately have a tank of "winter gas"
> - causing porblems once the weather turned warm.
>
> If your Datsun is a " toy car" that doesn't get driven that much - consider
> the last time you filled it up ! something like this may be contributing to
> vapor-lock problems. Also... if you do have a "seasonal" car and keep it
> stored - try going w/ avgas- 100LL. I't's full of stabilizers ( they know
> that many airplanes don't get that many miles on them) and does NOT have the
> alcohol/MTBE that pump gas has. You may even be surprised that the price is
> not that much more - considering some of the price increases at the pump
> lately
>
> Laurie :-)
> 70 SPL311
> AzROC
> Chandler, AZ
>
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