Fuel Age - Keeping It Fresh

[JRJ]

Re: Fuel Age - Keeping It Fresh

My engine started on first crank today after sitting for 7 months and ran fine. No gas additives.

 

[Pony]

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If you don't need any stabilizers or additives, thats great.......<br /><br />I have however had issues with bad fuel and an outboard. Yeah it started in the drivway and I could idle it all day long, but my carbs were so gummed up an that the motor wouldn't run with any throttle and it ran like crap. Given that personal expirience, I now use stabilizer and sea foam.

 

[cobra 3.0]

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Gas and oil mixture gums things up bad without fuel stabiliser...straight gas though?...hasn't happened to me yet.

 

[ztim]

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Will that work in a car as well? What to add if car had been sitting up for a few years?

 

[JRJ]

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Originally posted by ztim04:<br /> Will that work in a car as well? What to add if car had been sitting up for a few years?

Tell us more about the car and what the gas smells like.

 

[ztim]

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I don't know. It (car) was my Dads and is still back home in Wisconsin.

 

[rickdb1boat]

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Usually, if you take a whiff of it and it's real bad, it will smell like varnish. If it's been a few years, I would drain it....

 

[ztim]

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Thank You. I know someone who can check it for me.

 

[markvan]

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walleyehed - just wondering where the info on how fast Today's fuel starts to degrade came from. i would have never guessed it was that quick.....not that i don't believe it just wondering as i am interested in it, my brother works at a refinery and i am always giving him the gears about the over prices crappy fuel they make.

 

[ztim]

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Everywhere I look says NAPA carrys Seafoam. Went to get some...nothing. Auto Zone had it. Napa had an out dated boating catylog too. Is it just this one store or are they all this slack?

 

[rickdb1boat]

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I don't know, Tim. Mine had a newer catalog and they always have Seafoam and Deep Creep in stock. ...