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fuel stabiizers-how effective?
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. AZ |
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I would not fill the tank. I never add fuel to my tank for storage.
Filling w/ fresh gas for the first use is much better. I personally would: 1. Drain fuel and use in auto 2. Mix a small amount of fuel and stabilizer to run the engine so the engine has fuel stabilizer in it for the storage period. The other option would be to just add stabilizer to the 40 litres of gas (haul it around to mix it up good), run the engine to get the mix into it. Fill w/ fresh gas when you are going to use. -- Tony my boats and cars at http://t.thomas.home.mchsi.com "A.Z" wrote in message om... 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. AZ |
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you guys are buying Hoolium Foolium. Skip a step. Send the money to me and I
will pray for your fuel tank. You won't even mess up your hands and prayer is just as effective. |
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nomo res pam, can you tell the accepted scientific definition of
"deteriorated"? From: Date: 11/13/2004 3:47 PM Eastern Standard Time Message-id: 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. Where are you located? The gas that we get here in New England after 2 months of sitting in the tank is old and has "deteriorated." SAure, it burns, but it's not as good as fresh gas. Adding stabilizer to 2-month old gas may not do any good. The instructions on the stabilizer bottle say that it is best to add it to fresh gas. It's best if you can drain the 2-month old gas that you have in your boat tank (and burn it in your car or other gasoline engine). Then add some fresh gas and stabilzer to your boat tank and run the engine 10 mins to get the treated gas into the carb/fuel injection system/whatever. They used to say that it was best to fill the boat's gas tank to the top before the winter so as to avoid having moisture condense in the tank. However, two very good marine mechanics each told me last fall to leave the level low for the winter after adding stabilizer to the fresh gas. Then in the spring, fill up the tank with fresh gas. Sandy |
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