Use gas without ethanol either from the pump if available or in metal 1gal cans from the hardware store, should store for years.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2025, 9:22 PM Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> 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. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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