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| It’s a function of ethanol preferring to mix with water over gasoline and the octane rating of ethanol allowing for very poor gasoline to mix in it.
Around here ethanol causes lots of problems with small engines, especially ones that sit. Sometimes a month is too long, sometimes a year. A guy never can tell.
Ethanol sucks up water from all sources (condensation I think being the big issue) then it separates from the gasoline at some point. So you have ethanol and water on bottom, that at some point won’t flow through a filter hardly and the motor won’t fire on it. And you have some extremely poor gasoline on top of that. Sometimes it turns back to corn syrup and makes a huge mess, I’m not sure what causes that becuse a bottle of everclear is extremely stable on a shelf.
I have a 110 gallon tank of 87 that I had for winter fuel in case of emergency. Generator, vehicles etc. I filled it up in November, dumped in a big jug of stable. In march I started using it in the gator to burn it. By April I had to clean out the tank on the gator, wife’s mower, kids little 4 wheeler , Roto tiller. Tried burning it in my 92 f350 with half tank of clean fuel and it was acting bad enough I quit trying that. I’ve been using it to light bbq fires, but anyone who wants to tell me ethanol is awesome can come by and I’ll put a tank of this in their vehicle for free! | |
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I love Ethanol BUT explain this
