Thats my experience. Except I get in a couple of cold clear days of
driving in Jan or Feb. This year not due to resto work
I Erbs
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On Jan 6, 2010, at 1:58 AM, "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
> I would be interested to know if people on this list have actually
> experienced any of the problems described in this article. I
> normally store
> my Healey from late November/early December to early March. I leave
> the gas
> tank full so that I minimize potential condensation. When I take
> the car
> out in the spring the only difference that I see is that the fuel
> pump runs
> a bit longer because the float bowls are completely empty.
>
> - Peter Schauss
> 1963 BJ7
> 1980 MGB
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-
>> bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bob Spidell
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:55 PM
>> To: john spaur
>> Cc: austin healey
>> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Gas and ethanol
>>
>> The latest _British Motoring_ from Moss Motors has a fairly
>> informative
>> article on alcohol in gas.
>>
>>
>> bs
>>
>>
>>
>> john spaur wrote:
>>> I don't recommend using avgas. I did for a while and found no
>>> benefit.
>>> My personal opinion is that it could harm the engine because they
>>> are
>>> not generally tuned for the avgas and it is formulated differently
>>> from automotive fuels.
>>> John
>>>
>>> At 11:12 AM 1/3/2010 +0100, Oudesluys wrote:
>>>> Since your engines were designed to run on leaded petrol there
>>>> should
>>>> be no problem at all running on aviation petrol.....
>>>> Kees Oudesluijs
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Bob Spidell schreef:
>>>>> Well, avgas doesn't have alcohol in it, if that's what you mean.
>>>>> But, I think you'd have problems running exclusively on avgas,
>>>>> as it
>>>>> still has lots of lead in it....
>>>>> bs
>>>
>>>
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