E15 gasoline incoming...
Leaving this link here. I am not aiming to be political with this, but just a heads up... more booze in our dino juice is headed our way.
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Horizon170 wrote:profdant139 wrote:
It'll work ok in newer cars and trucks. Not so great for certain generators -- my Honda 2000 hates ethanol. It is a full time job keeping those carb jets clean -- fuel additives, running the gen under load once a month, draining the carb every time I use it. Fun!!
And the irony is that I almost never use the gen for real. We just got back from a month of camping in the Rockies. My 120 watt portable solar panel kept us topped up every day -- the generator sat in the back of the truck, waiting for a long cloudy spell that never came.
I think we can add a fuel cutoff valve to our 2000's and run it out of fuel before we use the original shut down procedure. That would circumvent the manual carb. drain.
The “off” switch on the Honda is a fuel cutoff but it also cuts off the ignition. The workaround is to disconnect the wire from it so it runs out of gas. Some have installed a switch do you can disconnect only when you want to run the fuel out.
Sorry for the off topic. I’m with the “Ethanol is a boondoggle” camp.
