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Originally Posted by Triple Jim
Welcome, Nicholas!
I've certainly never had stabilizer cause a problem here, and I use it regularly. If I had to guess, I'd say that moisture got in somehow, maybe before you filled the tank, and it caused the problems you had. You could always put some scrap parts in a jar of fuel and the stabilizer you used, and see what happens over the following weeks. Was this Sta-Bil, or something else?
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Sea Foam. When used as a stabilizer it only claims to stabilize E10 for an extra two years but since I was using E0 (Ethanol free) I thought I’d be good for much more.
I wish I had my Ethanol testing kit back then to verify E0 but the station had a whole separate pump so I assumed it would be the real deal. The original petcock was leaking so after the first couple years I drained the fuel and replaced it along with a full tank of fresh E0. It sat several more years before I found it completely empty.
Perhaps the stabilizers promoting that as their primary use work better. I definitely shouldn’t have let it go that long but people using E0 with no stabilizer seem to have better long term results so I still blame the stabilizer. Regardless, I’m draining the tank if I ever have to do this again!
