Nicholls, Clark wrote:
>
> All the finger pointing at bad gas and gas shelf life, I have never had
> any such symptoms over the past 25 years, even with storing my Spitfire
> (or Camaro or ...) for several years a couple of times. I fill the tank
> with hi-test (normal grade I use) when storage time comes, drive it into
> the garage and shut down. Turn off the petcock in the gas line to
> prevent siphoning (installed 2 years ago after a leaky electric pump
> turned the garage into a potential bomb) and put her up on jackstands
> and under the covers after changing the oil. This is in New England
> where the covers go on in October - November and she stays there till
> April. No, the garage isn't heated.
>
> The last couple of years we have had the "oxygenated" California spec
> gas here and still no problems.
>
> Has anyone really fallen prey to "bad gas" or is their storage suspect?
>
> Clark
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I have 173,000 miles on a Honda Prelude with fuel injection. I have had
perhaps 3 times when I filled up at some station and soon after had
rough running rice rocket. I usually found that if I refilled with high
quality gas, from a reputable station, the problem went away. Twice I
have used the off the self injector cleaners as well.
I hope that was your problem and solution.
John
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