09-13-2011, 06:24 AM
tenders wrote:
... If you burn the fuel within a year everything will be just fine.
The problems start when the fuel sits around for a long time, starts to go bad, and the ethanol separates into an orange sludge. Or if you have a fiberglass fuel tank, but no car has that.
That hasn't been my experience in Kauai. Fuel with 10% ethanol really messes with small engines and this happens within a month. The only sure cure is to burn all the fuel each use or dump the fuel and run the engine until it quits. Stabil and Seafoam help prevent the water absorption but are not really the complete answer here, in this climate.