Does fuel stabilizer in ethanol gas prevent damage

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I hate to argue with you Dick, but Ethyl gas contains no ethanol. 

Joe(OH) wrote: I hate to argue with you Dick, but Ethyl gas contains no ethanol.  https://aoghs.org/products/tetraethyl-lead-gasoline/

X2 Modern Ethanol was not developed until the 1970s.

Yes read my reply. MODERN ETHANOL the old stuff was more like moonshine I bet you could have probably drank it!! LOL It was used a lot back in the 20s and 30s then again during WW II. It wasn't till the 1970s that the environmental looneys got into it that we came up with what we are stuck with today.

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I'm burning E85.

If ethanol was so good the gov't wouldn't have to force companies to add it to gas.

I'm torn on the ethanol thing. It never causes problems in my old tractors or cars at all. It does not , however, seem to keep well in my snowmobiles or walk behind snow blower. It seems like things that are stored in winter come through just fine, and things that are stored in the summer heat don't fare so well.

Well, once we figure this out for sure, please tell me what motor oil to use in my D17!

AllisFreak MN wrote: I'm torn on the ethanol thing. It never causes problems in my old tractors or cars at all. It does not , however, seem to keep well in my snowmobiles or walk behind snow blower. It seems like things that are stored in winter come through just fine, and things that are stored in the summer heat don't fare so well. I am old enough to remember that the old style gas had its share of problems too though in the snowmobiles.

Snowmobiles! They were no good when times were good...... I never got into the sport but had many friends who did and way back in the 80's if you had an old carbureted machine it was constant adjustments whenever the temperature changed even a little. Fuel injected was a pleasure comparatively. Glad I stuck to dirt bikes cause I never even had a carb off of one and they always ran...... cept the worn out Susuki RM80, it was fast but well used. The Yamaha Enduro 100 and 250 were good bikes and worked great for rounding up the cattle when they got out. The RM80 could easily beat the Enduros off the line and in any short run.

Until 5-6 yrs ago,I had option to by non alky for farm tank. Supplier told me refinery started blending everything at the rack and could no longer get straight gas. Only problem I really had was 16hp Briggs Simplicity wouldn't start/run worth crap after winter pause. Needed new plug to get it going. Was it the gas or junk plugs of today?

I don't seem to have a problem with any of my vehicles with the fuel round' here. It just seems to effect the air cooled engines. I read an article quite a few years back about how Ethanol makes the valves stick in air cooled engines. My Honda HT rider twin was hitting on one cylinder. I threw some sea foam in it to see if it would do anything, and within 20 minutes, it was running like a clock again. I tried the Ethanol free 50-1 fuel in the cans just to see if there was a difference. Within a couple tank fulls on the chain saws and the weed wacker, the engines came to life and really ripped. Throttle response was back again, and they operated like when I first purchased them. I don't know. I figured for as much as I use the weed wacker and chain saw in the summer, I'll just use the canned fuel....

Must be a state additive regulation thing. All stations where I buy gas only sells 10% ethanol unless they carry the E85 which is higher. I have not had problems with gas and I don't drain gas tanks over the winter. If it has been over a year or two since I have started one of the tractors I do have to clean the carburetor some times. I don't blame it on the ethanol that is blended in though. I blame it on state and federal government refining regulations imposed on the refiners. Some of those have been lifted. It will something I will watch to see if it makes a difference other than lowering the cost of refining.