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I use fuel stabilizer in my tanks.

I don't usually drive my GL every day, sometimes I don't drive it for a week. So I put stabilizer in it to keep the stupid ethanol from eating seals, filling the system with water, etc.

Fuel stabilizer is great stuff, it saves all the small carb engines I take care of.

 
CoupedUpSubie said:
The problem I have with ethanol is it is prone to separating from the gasoline and mixing with any water that happens to be in the system. This creates alcohol which burns hotter. Ethanol has actually been found to be worse for the environment then gasoline. Many of us own cars which do not like ethanol. It is even worse when you get to a carburated engine. I have cleaned my card on my wheeler more in the past 2 years then I can even count. It also can burn up a 2-stroke in a split second. When I could still get straight gasoline I got 3 or 4 more mpg then I do with 10% ethanol.
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You have this mixed up a bit.

When the Ethanol IS alcohol, it attracts moisture. The problem is it becomes a non compressible, non flamable fluid when it gets too much water in it.

The other problem is that it needs a different fuel table since you need something like 10-12:1 A/F mixture for the E10 rather than the 14.7:1 for straight gas. And these days all of your power equipment has non adjustable carbs (thanks Kalifornia)

If you have gas cans, you NEED the new valve type gas cans or you will have lots of water in your gas. You also need to use an ethanol STABIL or other ethanol approved stabilizer if you keep gas more than a week or two. Also keep the cans sheltered

My father already killed a snowblower with some of this fuel that had accumulated too much water.

 
Pedro said:
You have this mixed up a bit.

When the Ethanol IS alcohol, it attracts moisture. The problem is it becomes a non compressible, non flamable fluid when it gets too much water in it.
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Thank you for the correction. I did not realize my blatant mistake. I have been planning to do a bit more research into the actual chemistry of the E10 fuel. The A/F mixture intrigues me because I know I can lower it slightly with a larger main jet in my ATV. I am currently running the largest I have. But I have a high flow air filter.

 
The best way to make sure you tune accordingly is with an EGT probe.

I have heard some people can do it on the small engines with one of the non contact thermometers, but I haven't done that myself.

 
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