I bought a bottle of something called Starbrite - Startron enzyme fuel treatment on the advice of my neighbor - a professional mechanic. He said it gets rid of the ethanol problems - I just started using it - so who knows?
” bought a bottle of something called Starbrite - Startron enzyme fuel treatment on the advice of my neighbor - a professional mechanic. He said it gets rid of the ethanol problems - I just started using it - so who knows?”
There are a couple of problems with Ethanol as a fuel. First of all, since it’s hygroscopic (has ans afinity for moisture), it agrivates the problem with condensation in your fuel tank. That’s not normally a problem so long as you run the vehicle all the time and consume the water/alcohol mix as you drive. Secondly, alcohols are corrosive. That’s why older vehicles that were not originally built to accept alcohol, suffer fuel system failures. In larger percentages, aluminum parts are damaged by it. Alcohols are also bad for rubber parts, so newer stuff uses silicone elastomers. Even using fuel stabilizers have limited value with fuels containing alcohol. I use VP 92 octane clear unleaded in my generator and a similar product that contains the proper amount of oil for my two-cycle stuff. My chain saw can sit for six months with the stuff and start with one or two pulls. Before the switch, I would have to put in a new spark plug to get it to run.