BoatBanter.com - View Single Post - fuel stabiizers-how effective?

On 13 Nov 2004 09:32:02 -0800, (A.Z) wrote:

My question is about the effectiveness of stabilizer over a long
period of time.

My boat is normally stored from oct-nov to june-july. At the moment,
I have about 40 litres of 2 month old gazoline in the 100 litre tank.
Should I try to drain it and refill with stabilizer added to the gaz ?
Or should I just add fuel to fill the tank and assume that adding
stabilizer will properly treat all of the fuel for 8 months? The motor
is a 90hp Mercury 4-stroke.

You can drain it if you want, but throw in enough stabilizer for the
entire gas load (what ever that is - won't hurt anything), run the
engine for a while to get stable fuel into the recesses and then in
the spring, fill 'er up and off you go.

That's pretty much how I do it.

Later,

Tom