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Never saw this TC-W3 stuff. Is it the same as Sea Foam or Mercury's Quick
Clean? Who sells it? Larry wrote: sherwindu wrote in : Thanks Larry for the lecture. Most of what you say makes sense. I think the best preventative is to remove the fuel line from the engine and run the engine dry after every use. I was thinking about all the trouble of opening the carb drain plug, but that would spill a lot of fuel in the water and is probably more work. So all this stuff about Stabil keeping the gas from breaking down is advertising hype? Naw, not that much trouble. Just run it dry and when the engine starts to balk, pull the choke to full and turn the tiller from side to side to splash what's left in the bowl until it finally stalls from fuel starvation. The tiny bit that's left won't clog it for years. If you have a 4-stroke, I've tried a little TC-W3, maybe a cupful in 6 gallons, just a splash....and the Nissan 4-stroker quit cloggin the jets, too. Cap'n Geoffrey really clogged it up before I figured out what is going on. It's unfortunate these little motors don't have DIAPHRAM carbs on them like a jetski does. A diaphram carb has no float bowl and is sealed where the gas is so there is no evaporation problem. Your weedeater or chainsaw has them, too. Too bad they all have cheap plastic gas tanks that leak. -- There's amazing intelligence in the Universe. You can tell because none of them ever called Earth. |
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