stabil or sea foam for gas at home, we use the old fuel in the mowers
and get the clean gad feom fs
at work we converted to propane across the board, eliminated the gas issue
all together. when we had gas, one of the installers had it on their
schedule monthly to run all the generators for an hour.
we converted the little red Hondas originally, but now they come as
propane.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 11:55 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 1. Always add Stabill or equivalent to the fuel you use (this should
> give you almost a year of use).
> 2. Shut off the generator by shutting off the fuel and letting it run
> dry.
> 3. Set up a schedule to once or twice a year to drain all the fuel and
> replenish it.
> 4. Put all the 6-month-old fuel in your service trucks.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 1/5/2025 9:21 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>
> What do you folks do with your portable gasoline generators to avoid stale
> fuel problems?
>
>
>
> I’m talking 1000-2400 VA generators that you take out to a tower site when
> there’s a power shortage. And when power comes back on, there could be
> from zero to a full tank of gas in the generator, and it could be a week or
> a year before you use it again.
>
>
>
> I have a couple Honda inverter type generators, and I’m bad about just
> taking them back to the shop and letting them sit until next time I need
> them. They’ve always started. I think it helps that the Hondas have a
> fuel shutoff valve between the tank and the carburetor, and also a shutoff
> for the fuel cap vent. I also suspect the Hondas actually pump fuel from
> the tank to the float bowl rather than gravity feed but I’m not sure about
> that. I don’t however drain the carburetor after use, and in Illinois you
> can’t by E0 pump gas. It has to be E10, unless you buy outrageously
> expensive gas in cans like TruFuel. I guess we have to put lousy gas in
> our small engines to help the farmers sell their corn.
>
>
>
> Should I be emptying the fuel tank after every use? Am I OK to leave gas
> in the generator if I add Sta-Bil to the gas in the can I use to fill the
> generator? Should I fill the generator to the top before storing it rather
> than leave it half full?
>
>
>
> Or am I overthinking this? I know I left about an inch of gas in my
> snowblower tank after last winter and it really didn’t want to start this
> year. I pumped out the fuel tank, refilled it with TruFuel, drained the
> float bowl several times, finally got it to start but it ran like crap for
> 2-3 minutes. I think it wasn’t varnish but water in the gas from the
> alcohol pulling moisture out of the air, but I’m not sure.
>
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