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so after talkin to a few folks and some more last nite at the dw banquet.... ive come to figure out that i was indeed not the dumb____ i thought i was(well, not in this manner anyway).

Dont know how many of u guys know this.... but dodge the ethanol gas in a small boat motor..... see, didnt.... and im goin to pick my boat up today with a carb that had to be gutted and replaced inside.... i had no idea that ethanol was a problem to small motors but guess what it is.... im sure lots know this and maybe no one cares.... but readin this and all maybe will save someone a couple of hundos........

good luck.

If you want an explanation of why this happens talk to deltacottonboy. He has all the answers!

yep it destoys all your gaskets and hoses. I started treating all my gas (except my truck cause i use it to quick) with this ethanol treatment. it is suppose to evaporate the H2O that ethanol produces in you gas tank. i can't remeber the name of the stuff off hand.

There has been numerous posts about ethanol mixed gas and ANY outboard. Overtime ethanol separates from the gasoline. This lowers the octane rating of the fuel. Boat tanks sweat and almost all tanks have some amount of water in them from their occasional use. The ethanol mizes with the water at the bottom of the tank when it separates from the gasoline. Now you have a watery ethanol mixture sitting at the bottom of the tank.


One plus, ethanol is a solvent and will clean an old fuel system, kind of like what bio-diesel does for diesel engines.

Thank you for that M R. I believe I caught the early stages of damage a couple months ago. Only 2 gas stations have ethenol free gas in starkville. They have large signs hanging up indicating this. I also use the carn treatment every tank or every other tank. Seems to be helping. 3 carbs are hell on the wallet when its time to have them serviced.

Deltacottonboy12 wrote:Thank you for that M R. I believe I caught the early stages of damage a couple months ago. Only 2 gas stations have ethenol free gas in starkville. They have large signs hanging up indicating this. I also use the carn treatment every tank or every other tank. Seems to be helping. 3 carbs are hell on the wallet when its time to have them serviced.

the fast break on 182w has regular and premium non-ethanol gas (only the mid grade has ethonal in it). i went to the other place and got a tank full of sludge off of the bottom of the tank that got mixed up good with water, so i haven't been back to them after dealing with the bs .....

stabil in the blue bottle is for ethanol

Yes, get the Stabil for ethanol fuel.

Sea Foam works wonders also.

Ninja runs sea foam herer

yes thats the chit i'm running

tazdog wrote:stabil in the blue bottle is for ethanol

Most of the small engine (chainsaw) stores carry a Non-ethanol gas with the oil already mixed in for the Chainsaws.
The ethanol eats up the gaskets REAL bad on the little motors.

ok so i just got off the phone with the shop.... i got to go pick it up today but the guy said that there was a large amount of water in my fuel..... exact words he used was ur fuel was loaded with water.....

how is that? i just filled that tank up the day my motor went out and it has not been rained on or anything?

is the fuel we are gettin turnin over that much water in it?

I had the same problem on a few different small engines. I run sea foam in everything now.

jkb87 wrote:ok so i just got off the phone with the shop.... i got to go pick it up today but the guy said that there was a large amount of water in my fuel..... exact words he used was ur fuel was loaded with water.....

how is that? i just filled that tank up the day my motor went out and it has not been rained on or anything?

is the fuel we are gettin turnin over that much water in it?

its possible the station you filled up at had water in their tanks. You may have paid for water instead of gas.

ethanol is basically corn wiskey, and as we all know wiskey has water in it, if you are buying gas at a station that doesn't do a large volume of business the gasoline actually floats on the water that has seperated from the ethanol , making the water content o the gas much higher than normal, @ least thats how it was explained to me