sdowney717
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Jul 16, 2011
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Re: Adding more E into the fire
Re: Adding more E into the fire
My generators all less than 4 years old can handle e10. With the hurricane coming, I started them up after they had sat for a year.
They did run and one of them had a slight miss which went away when slightly choked and then cleared up after 15 minutes.
The gas in these was not fresh. The tanks are plastic and when shutting these down, I turn off the tank valve let them run till they quit and as they shut down choke them full to get as much e10 out of the carbs as possible.
Then they get covered with an old heavy duty piece of pool liner.
These other older motors with steel tanks and rubber diaphrams that briggs cant make properly for e10, I cant do anything perhaps except manually phase separate the fuel. I also talked with the service parts counter people at the small equipment shop and was told they have a hard time keeping those motors running and those rubber diaphrams are only lasting a few hours. When you look at how they wear, the little rubber flaps are disintegrating. Which means the fuel pumps fail.
Re: Adding more E into the fire
My generators all less than 4 years old can handle e10. With the hurricane coming, I started them up after they had sat for a year.
They did run and one of them had a slight miss which went away when slightly choked and then cleared up after 15 minutes.
The gas in these was not fresh. The tanks are plastic and when shutting these down, I turn off the tank valve let them run till they quit and as they shut down choke them full to get as much e10 out of the carbs as possible.
Then they get covered with an old heavy duty piece of pool liner.
These other older motors with steel tanks and rubber diaphrams that briggs cant make properly for e10, I cant do anything perhaps except manually phase separate the fuel. I also talked with the service parts counter people at the small equipment shop and was told they have a hard time keeping those motors running and those rubber diaphrams are only lasting a few hours. When you look at how they wear, the little rubber flaps are disintegrating. Which means the fuel pumps fail.
