[Spridgets] Spridgets & Gasoline

[Ron Soave]

New gas certainly can't hurt, but I'll offer a data point to the contrary. I park one of my cars in Florida at our vacation location. I use it for 1 to 2 weeks per year. I use Stabil in the tank. I fill the tank each year before I go home. It starts first time, every time for the past 8 years. Engine is bone-stock.

Find the intake leak.

--- On Thu, 7/2/09, Bud Pazur <bpazur at excel.net> wrote:

> From: Bud Pazur <bpazur at excel.net>
> Subject: [Spridgets] Spridgets & Gasoline
> To: spridgets at autox.team.net
> Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 9:44 AM
> I was just talking to a very
> knowledgeable lister who said that the cause of
> my missing, spitting, bucking problem could very well be
> old gasoline. He
> says modern gas loses its power very quickly. I am going to
> find out this
> evening when I drain the tank and put in fresh gas. A lot
> of the gas in my
> tank is old (last summer). He says Stabil doesn't help.
> 
> He also said I should try to find premium without ethanol.
> This is
> increasingly hard to do these days. I wonder if other
> listers are concerned
> about this, and take steps like timing, additives, a bit of
> racing gas, etc.
> 
> Thanks again, very knowledgeable lister!!!