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Old November 10th, 2023, 05:37 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by CZroe View Post
I stored mine for years with a full tank of Ethanol Free fuel and stabilizer and I will NEVER do that again. Total disaster. It seems like the stabilizer ate away at the brand new petcock and all of the fuel drained through the carbs/cylinders and into the crank. The tank totally rusted.
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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