Thread: Where is the small engine section?

I used the stabil storage stuff. Wasted my money. Been using it for 4 years in the engine per instructons. Stuff is kinda like Roundup. Goes up on price and covers less.

Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I used the stabil storage stuff. Wasted my money. Been using it for 4 years in the engine per instructons. Stuff is kinda like Roundup. Goes up on price and covers less.

Don't feel bad Cane Pole. Until I found that article I posted yesterday, I "assumed" I was covered as well. It made sense but was eye opening for sure. I wonder just how many of us out there thought the exact same thing? I've done some research and seen a few studies in recent years that steered me away from their products anyway. Like many on here, I now use seafoam.

I am constantly reminded by one particular researcher I listened to when he said... "no product on the market can get rid of water". Not really sure how the stuff works but my assumption is that the mixtures companies use are designed to not allow the water and fuel to seperate? I wish I had the best answer.

I picked up a 4 wheeler from a friend of mine for next to nothing (purchased it for my daughter). They said they put over $400 dollars in a new carburator and couldn't get it to run right. I got it fired at my house and it would only run on choke. I knew it was fuel. First thing I did was pull the fuel petcock off the tank and discoverved that the reserve side has/had a small extension about 1/4 inch that was fractured (due to fuel being stored in the tank and breaking down the plastic component). There was pieces in the reserve side. I assumed those peices traveled down to the new carb. I pulled the fuel line (clean) and continued tracing. Pulled the carb completely apart, inspected all needle jets, floats, and so on. I blew into the fuel line connection and noted that I could get very little air through it. Put my compresser on it and out popped a piece of plastic. Reinstalled and it ran like brand new.

Had the company they took it to did their due diligence, they would have found the root cause of the issue NOT to be the carb, but the pieces being sent to the carb from that plastic tube being broke down.