> Curley wrote: > I have not taken my stihl in because it needed a rebuild in ~40 > years. I mix a gallon a year, and use it to light bonfires etc, > and yes, it has ethanol in it.
I don't know what you folk do different - or what it is that I do different. But my experience is _zero_ fuel trouble in 30+ years of trying to use _only_ ethenol laced gasoline. Yup - I used to carefully choose the station so I could get E10. It's now so common I don't have to search for it. I burn at least 4 gallons a year in my chain saws, a lot less than that in the line trimmer. My mowers are all 4 cycle, and the newest is at least 25 years old. They two get only E10. And there the carburetor fed small-block Cheby engines. After switching to E10 I no longer had to clean the carburetors every couple years. It was that experience that caused me to shift to always try to use E10 and it has been a rare fueling that was otherwise. All these engines sit for long periods of time. And Missouri is not known for it's low humidity I would expect condensation to be common. Again - zero problems that I can blame on fuel. The closest was this fall, the one chainsaw didn't start. I opened the carburetor, found nothing wrong - clean as a pin. Put it back together and it runs fine. Was that fuel? I suppose it could have been - but I didn't change the fuel in the tank. Once it was running I worked it until it was empty, filled with fresh(er) fuel and kept cutting. So am I just lucky? Is it the steady diet of E10? I don't know, but I'm still using E10 almost exclusively for all engines that don't use diesel. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
