Thread: petrol water blaster's

Originally Posted by zimmer

My small engines guru said that petrol nowadays can go stale in as little as 3 months.

My Honda gene has a run to empty position on its on off switch. This prevents stale fuel gumming up. Trouble is, if the system is totally empty of fuel it takes many many pulls to get it to start. With my gene which is my energency power supply, I want it to start within 3 pulls.

Guru recommended a fuel stabilizer so I use a Honda product made by Sta-Bil and so far it seems effective. Now I just shut it down without running the fuel out. I guess time will tell and one shitey night when there's a power failure.......

You could run the thing every month or two, drain the tank and add fresh fuel.
Run it for long enough to get new fuel right through the carb etc.

Might be easy to add a drain hose and valve near the fuel tap.