Heard,
Great idea to fill up at the marina, never thought if that, I can not find
pure gas here. I will need to check the marinas out on Long Island, anybody
know if they have no ethanol gas? It would be good to fill up before putting
the cars into storage.
Steve
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Heard Saxon <heard at datatrontech.net> wrote:
> Around here you can get decent gas without the ethanol bs at the marinas.
> It seems to cost about .40 to .50/gal more but I now run it in all my small
> lawn equipment.
>
> Cheers,
> Heard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael MacLean
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:59 AM
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Spridgets] Crap California Gas
>
> I went for a ride on my harley the other day. It would barely run without
> the
> fuel enrichener (choke?) pulled out. It would die at idle and it would
> fart
> small backfires on accelleration. In the past I had always filled it with
> Chevron 91 octane with no storage problems. The last time I filled it up
> was
> with Union 76 91 octane and it sat in the garage for 6 weeks due to the
> month
> long rains of December and cold weather of January. My working 7 days a
> week
> also contributed. Never had this problem with Chevron in the Harley or the
> Bugeye sitting for long periods, but that 76 gas is crap. In fact, most of
> the gas here in California is crap. On a side note, I found a gas station
> in
> Riverside, California that has 100 octane no-lead gas at the pump.
> Something
> like almost 8 bucks a gallon, but it might be a hoot to try it out and it
> just
> might cure my Harley's problem!
> Mike MacLean
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