Adulterated gasoline is poison to small engines. I have been using pure gas in all of my small engines for over 2 years and have not had the same type of expen$ive problems I had before with corn gas. I spent over $600 in two years having carburetors rebuilt because of using that crap. All of my big vehicles are Diesels.
Check out www.pure-gas.org to find stations in your area that sell the real deal.
“Adulterated gasoline is poison to small engines.”
Yup. I havn’t used any ethanol in any small engine for a few years now...Got tired of rebuilding carbs.
“Adulterated gasoline is poison to small engines”
I learned the hard way:
Push mower - carb bladder disentigrated
Weed eater - Carb bladder screwed up, and fuel line disolved
Chain saw - Fuel line disolved
Riding mover - carb gasket disentigrated
New Generator - I haven’t check, but I bet its the carb.
And this one is harder to prove; but, I swear the ethanol did it. My high mileage car sprung a leak in the fuel line. This leak wasn’t real low on the car where mud might get caked on it. Instead it was real high, at the bend to enter the fuel rail...and it rusted fom the inside out. It looked perfect from the outside, just had a near invisible pin hole. So, it must have been water in the fuel. No proving it was the ethanol that did it; but, I am suspicious.
We have an E-15 station in town. Their schtick is low prices, so they don’t advertise the ethanol content any more than they have to. However, if you do the math with the lower mpg ethanol, you really aren’t getting a discount. I tell everybody I know to avoid it like the plague.
Same with our FD - have problems with our tools clogging up
Ethanol is corrosive to aluminium - it dissolves the protective oxide layer and gums up the system
Had to use a blend called “TOOL FUEL” from the manufacturer which contains no ethanol
My area is a mandated for reformulated gasoline.