Fuel stabilizer

[jakethesnake]

Assuming you mean that you put it in the gas? I started putting mix oil in all my cans because I don't trust the kids to not straight-gas my equipment. So far it doesn't seem to bother my utility vehicle or my push mower....the lawn tractor is diesel, but I add mix oil to it as well.

Yes in the gas

 

[FergusonTO35]

A long time Ford tractor mechanic once told me that putting a cup of bar and chain oil in the fuel would help the valve guides. I'm sure 2 stroke oil would have the same effect and probably burn better.

 

[Al Smith]

The thing I use is Stabil in both my pressure washer and generator .It must work because they start easy .

 

[FergusonTO35]

Honestly, the biggest problem ethanol causes me is black mold or whatever that discoloration is that builds up in the gas cap area, as shown here:

 

[Al Smith]

I don't know if it's ethanol or what it is but my one Fergie TO 20 is giving me fits .It sits most of the time being a loader tractor and as such the carb plugs up and drives me nuts .II's a simple Marvell up draft but it needs rodded out again .If not it will starve out when you least expect it like right in the middle of a lift .What I'm doing right now it takes a loader as I'm not nearly as strong as an old timer as I was as a younger man .Time to turn a wrench ----or in this case a screw driver ----It was brand new in 1950 I was brand new in1948----

 

[Wilhelm]

I do not utilize fuel stabilizers, though I may just be lucky my local gas is rated E5.

I keep all my gas OPE topped off and I try to start them up every month or two.
So far it seems to keep fuel related troubles & issues at bay.

 

[lehman live edge slab]

I don't know if it's ethanol or what it is but my one Fergie TO 20 is giving me fits .It sits most of the time being a loader tractor and as such the carb plugs up and drives me nuts .II's a simple Marvell up draft but it needs rodded out again .If not it will starve out when you least expect it like right in the middle of a lift .What I'm doing right now it takes a loader as I'm not nearly as strong as an old timer as I was as a younger man .Time to turn a wrench ----or in this case a screw driver ----It was brand new in 1950 I was brand new in1948----

Your same age as my dad roughly and I saw him trying to lift stuff and told him I have forks for my tractor right there. Told me he didn’t want to use my stuff and I had to chew him out because it’s for his use as much as mine when he’s over doing projects. I live in the house I grew up in and he built in the 70’s so he’s over all the time because he can’t sit in the apartment which I don’t want them doing anyway. Far as fuel stabilizers I used to use some but don’t much anymore unless it’s built into the oil. Almost all of them have a large amount of alcohol in them and your adding what your trying to avoid with e-free fuel.

 

[edisto]

Almost all of them have a large amount of alcohol in them and your adding what your trying to avoid with e-free fuel.

The alcohol in fuel stabilizers is almost always isopropanol, which behaves differently from ethanol in fuel. Both are hygroscopic (they absorb water), but that interaction with water causes phase-separation with ethanol, and not with isopropanol.