Thread: Real gas?

T-ricks at 107 and the cut thru to 89 has no ethanol fuel

run my 50 yammie hard during duck season, sat for a month first fishin trip out she ran rough, no idle, wouldnt take throttle! dumped the water seperator, still rough!! dumped it 2 more times last time into a mason jar ________________ wow!!!!!!! if you have any water in the filter for very long it will rust up the bottom of the filter which in turn goes into the carbs quick and in a hurry!! new filter n pull n clean carbs ----- sweet runnin jewel again...... that is all

I do some outboard patch work in my spare time and DKO is exactly right. Ethanol doesn't hurt the carb itself. It deteriorates the fuel lines going to and in your motor which cause trash to get in your carb. Also if you let you boat set up for long periods of time with gas still in lines and carb it will begin to "gel". The best solution I have found in outboards that you cannot run the fuel out of ( especially fuel injected motors without a carb) is to add marine grade stabil every other tank. On my bass rig we have a Mercury 225 pro XS even though it doesn't have carb, ethanol will still break down fuel lines, rail...ect so direct injected outboards need this also. I am no expert this just my opinion from experience

Originally Posted by joe004

I only have a small 9.9 mercury, is there a seperator that I can put in the line from the tank?

Sure it don't have one?
I have a 25 Merc and it has one.

In the NLR area I know that McSwain's Premium is no ethanol... it was ONLY $3.75 yesterday OUCH!

I always try and get non ethanol and put the marine stabil in every tank. I got tired of pulling the carb off my little motor

If you ever drive through the NLR area, you can take the Burns Park exit off of 40. There's a station at MacArthur and Military (camp Robinson entrance area) that sells non-ethanol gas. That's where I gas up. It's usually a little more than +.10 than other places, but I usually only get three gallons at a time.