Bob,
Is Stabil nothing more than rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol ???) ??
I know gas line anti-freeze is ethyl alcohol (that's why I pour
single malt scotch into my tank during winter)
At 04:14 PM 8/6/2008, Bob Howard wrote:
>Bob,
> Perhaps a help, but by no means an answer to the problem.
> September 07 I filled my snowblower with fresh petrol with a little
>Stabil. Come April, thanks to very little snow during the winter, I
>drained the tank and then ran engine dry. It was stumbly and unhappy
>when it started. I then put in some April 08 gas, started it again, and
>it ran OK until carb was dry a second time. The TD, on the other hand,
>ran fine in the spring, having been filled about the same time as the
>blower, and the TD did not receive any Stabil.
> Seems to me that there may be two factors involved with ageing fuel, a
>loss of volatility and gumming. If my example is representative, one
>might conclude that the volatility loss did not bother the snowblower or
>theTD much (87 octane being plenty for the TD's low-compression engine
>anyway) and that gumming did not affect the .090 jets, but that gumming
>in the tiny carb passages of the snowblower was a problem.
>Bob
>
>
>
>On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:09:40 -0400 "Bob Donahue" <bobmgtd@comcast.net>
>writes:
> > Is gas stabilizer the answer? If gas stabilizer really works, for how
> >
> > long????
> >
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