Re: Fuel and Lube Question

[David Stanton]

quote Jerry Ahrens:

I Gas stabilizer is added each fall for storage, along with the usual fogging of the engine.

You said he uses stabilizer but I’ve found most people just don’t understand Stabilizer. Two commonly misunderstood stabilizer items:

1. If the carb can’t be drained or run dry (as in that 454) once stabilizer is in the gas, the motor has to be run long enough so the stabilized fuel gets to the carb, replacing the non-stabilized fuel.

2. Most stabilizers out there stabilize gasoline, but NOT the ethanol in it. Most common stabilizer where I live is "Sta-Bil". It does nothing for ethanol unless you seek out their "Sta-Bil-Ethanol" product that almost nobody in Minnesota stocks. The other option in that brand is "Sta-Bil-Marine". With a phone call to the company, I learned Sta-Bil-Marine has twice as much of the ethanol stabilizer additive than is found in Sta-Bil-Ethanol.

I don’t understand why Sta-Bil company even sells the non-ethanol Sta-Bil here in Minnesota where just about all gasoline except for premium in a select few stations, has 10% ethanol.

My neighbor’s Ski Nautique boat had a carb looking like your photo the one year they ran 10% ethanol gas in it and they had a devil of a time getting all the phase-separated stuff out of the tank.

Dave