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The time is coming to winterize your mowers boat's etc... anybody do anything in particular that would be of help to other members?
Rather than put a gas stabilizer in the gas tank, I just run my snow blower until it runs out of gas. That ensures that there's essentially no fuel in the machine that needs to be stabilized over the summer months..........<snip>.............
http://media.channelblade.com/EProWebsiteMedia/704/ethanol.pdf
I run mine out of fuel and fog the chambers/cylinders with wd40.
Boats also have a big issue every year with gas. Mercury has tackled that issue pretty good with their staybilizer if that is the route you take.
My snowmobiles and kids go carts act up even when you run them out of gas after a few years. Takin the carb apart to clean it is something everyone should do once, it's really easy.
Right. In the past, some rubber diaphragms in carburetors would dry out if stored with no fuel, thus the need for stabilized gasoline. Something to be on the look out for..............
I was told that leaving fuel in the carburetor over the summer (or winter) could result in some kind of gunk forming in the carburetor. So, I just let the snow blower run out of fuel so that there's no fuel in there to form any gunk.
Was I misinformed, or have I just been lucky not having had problems until now doing that? So far, I've been doing it for over 20 years, and haven't had any fuel system problems at all.
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