corn laced gas

bass

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boy i feel like a fool! after double and tripple checking everything that i did during charlie's rehab he failed to start. the one thing i did not check was the gas tank---empty

with the current corn laced gas would you want to add some fule stablelizer in my sc?
 
(quoted from post at 14:33:55 11/19/14) boy i feel like a fool! after double and tripple checking everything that i did during charlie's rehab he failed to start. the one thing i did not check was the gas tank---empty

with the current corn laced gas would you want to add some fule stablelizer in my sc?

Never needed any stabil or anything else in my 2 Hs. One of them just sets for 4 to 5 months at a time without being started. It always starts up and runs when I want it to. E10 all the way.
 
I use lead additive in all my old vehicles, tractors, trucks, pickups, etc . can't hurt and might keep the valve seats from burning any worse than they are.
 
If you use the tractor several times a year you don't need anything, winter or summer. If it gets very little use and seldom gets any gas added then use stabilizer. Regardless of what others may say, I think gasoline is better than it ever has been, and that goes back to the 50's when I started driving tractors--including 10% alcohol or not.
 
Agreed. Turns out the lead additives are all just snake oil, but if it makes you feel better to use it, you're right, it can't hurt.

You would have to have a very rare old low-houred tractor to have the original soft valve seats to begin with. Plus given how little these tractors are used today compared to when they were new, it would take decades to appreciably erode soft valve seats.

A good friend of mine has a mid-70's Ford van with the soft valve seats. Drove it for 20+ years pulling way too big of a camper trailer with unleaded gas. It was still running fine when he pulled the heads to put on some custom Edelbrocks in the early 2000's, but those seats were pretty well worn out.
 
(quoted from post at 16:52:21 11/20/14) Don't use it if you have any rubber fuel components.

Gordo, do the research. Any rubber components, hoses, etc., that are rated for use in fuel systems will hold up just fine with ethanol. Been a fact for at least 40 years now.
 
rustyfarmall and Gordo, the reality is actually in the middle. Certain fuel pump diaphragms and carburetor are NOT compatible with ethanol, and some are. I can absolutely state as a fact, that NOS F12 fuel pump diaphragms fro A/C Delco turn to jelly with ethanol. Carter fuel pumps, work just fine.

Now, can you make a blanket statement either way? absolutely not. Some rubber based compounds tolerate ethanol, some don't. Butyl rubber for example tolerates ethanol to a certain extent, but is not good for extended contract. Nitrile based rubber is the best for extended ethanol immersion.

In the end, it truly depends upon the mfg'er and what they used.
 
(quoted from post at 09:05:45 11/21/14) rustyfarmall and Gordo, the reality is actually in the middle. Certain fuel pump diaphragms and carburetor are NOT compatible with ethanol, and some are. I can absolutely state as a fact, that NOS F12 fuel pump diaphragms fro A/C Delco turn to jelly with ethanol. Carter fuel pumps, work just fine.

Now, can you make a blanket statement either way? absolutely not. Some rubber based compounds tolerate ethanol, some don't. Butyl rubber for example tolerates ethanol to a certain extent, but is not good for extended contract. Nitrile based rubber is the best for extended ethanol immersion.

In the end, it truly depends upon the mfg'er and what they used.

I did say "for at least the last 40 years" 40 years ago was 1974. An F12 or F14 is at least 75 years old.
 
I am sitting here laughing my butt off that I missed that "40 years ago". I truly was thinking F series. The letter series to me is "current". The number series and later is the space shuttle in my mind. LOL

EDIT: :oops: :lol:

EDIT #2 Gray hair moment at it's best.
 
geez, just realized 40 years ago was not that long ago, I graduated high school 50 years ago. I must be an antique too.
 
(quoted from post at 19:06:59 11/21/14) geez, just realized 40 years ago was not that long ago, I graduated high school 50 years ago. I must be an antique too.

I'm just 5 years behind you.

I also look at the letter series as the current models. Something like an 856 is a NEW tractor.
 

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