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11-01-2021, 11:08 AM
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I've been using the 87 octane with 10% ethanol since back whenever it was that we couldn't buy anything else around here. That was sometime in the 1990's, I don't remember for sure. I buy my gas in 5 gallon cans and treat every can with StaBil and Lucas Ethanol Fuel Conditioner. I don't empty the fuel tanks and I don't run the carburetor dry. I use that same gas for all the 4 cycle engines I have; Farmall, Cub Cadets, Lawn Mower, generator, welder, pressure washer, and the old snowblower with a Techumseh engine. The 123 sat without running for over 2 years when I was working a lot of hours and didn't get time to run it, yet when I got back to it, it started right up. Ran rough for a few seconds, but smoothed out.
Never had any problems until I bought a new Cub Cadet snowblower in 2018. Went to start it for it's second winter season and it would not run. So I took back it to the dealer and they said that the ethanol in the gas had ruined the carburetor. I had to buy a new carburetor. Newest thing I have, yet the only one to give trouble. The manual says that it was made to run 10% Ethanol, but it was the only thing that has given me trouble. Even though the manual says it is made for it, the dealer recommended non-ethanol fuel anyway. Yet the 10% Ethanol never gave me any problems in the old equipment.  BTW, it is pointless to run the carburetor "dry". You can never get all the fuel out of the fuel bowl by running it. The engine will quit before the bowl is empty. Unless you have a drain on the fuel bowl, there is always a little bit left in it. 
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