Stabil useage

[Putershark]

My parents own a small engine repair business (had a wrench in my hands at a young age as you can well figure) and I was talking to Dad the other night about using Stabil in fuel. He has seen instances of such stuff clumping up and finding such chuncks after going through / rebuilding some carbs from hard start / no run repairs. So one can just figure what it could do to a fuel injected engine

We suspect it was either old fuel treatment stock that somebody gotten off of the shelf, or it had developed a hole in the seal and "started" to collect moisture (like old brake fluid) either way we suspect it had started to go south on the shelf. Who knows, maybe the seal was damaged in handling

He recommended to me which I thought I would share the following advise to help save from such grief....

• Make sure you look the bottle over and that it is still in a true "fluid" state (no chunky's floating around)
• Maybe look for a stamped production date on the bottle if you can find one, and get the newest one on the shelf.
• Be careful when opening and look the pour seal over as best as possible for prior breakage.
• Pour the contents into a gallon gas can, then fill 1/2 way with fuel and shake up real well like you would premix 2 cycle oil in days past "before" pouring it into your fuel tank.

Last thing we all need though, is our preventive maintenance measures being the root cause of poor engine running

[OspreyVic]

Good suggestion Dave. Thanks

[Putershark]

Oh your welcome Vic ,
I also found this read from Chevron (all I run in my Outboard) on long term fuel storage that may help explain some of the needs or not for using such additives in your tank...

http://www.chevron.com/products/prod...term_gasoline/

And I would denote the statement from them that fuel can be stored for 1 year under the right conditions. So you may not even need to use such additives in your boat tank pending of course, how often you run your boat and the local weather .