Pulling ethanol out of gas

down home wrote:
I'm glad some Folks have had luck with it. I've got several pieces of yard equipment in yard equipment garage that are ruined from it. The carburators or the most part but also other ruined parts.
Some equipment the parts are no longer made for.
Alcohol burns hotter but less power. My weed eaters and Brush cutters say not to use E5. They also prefere 93 octane no alcohol when run at full speed.
Big mower says E5 is allowed as does all equipment now. EPA demands the label.
But I won't risk it in 18,000.00 mower to make EPA happy Corn Farmers rich.
Where they work on my small engines has a room full of small engine equipment destroyed by Ethanol, parts no longer available etc so the Customers just leave them.
Perhpas, up north, the winter freeze removes all,of the moisture from the air but it won't stop hydrogen emnbrittlement.

Buy better equipment.

I have a newer 5 yr old Echo saw and weed eater (upgraded saw size and newer weed eater with more power), manuals make no mention or warnings about E level.. I have a bunch of older saws, from the 70's up to the 1990's, they all run perfectly fine with E gas..

Replaced my 25 yr old push mower last yr after DW hit a brick and bent the crank shaft.. New mower manual makes no mention about or warnings about E gas..

You also need to find better "mechanics".. I wrench on my own equipment.. MANY small engine mechanics ARE "hacks" and will tell you anything to pull money out of your pocket..

Spent many of my early years servicing electronic equipment for consumers in repair shops.. Any repair shop in order to make enough money to pay for insurance, lights, rent and have a little leftover WILL "PAD" the bill..

Yeah, they will always find extra things to charge the customer even if it means LIES.

By the way, running 93 octane is not only a waste of your money but also potentially damaging your equipment.. That higher octane can delay the burn in th cylinder to the point of the exhaust valve opening on 4 cycles burning the valve.. On 2 cycles, that can damage the exhaust port and/or scorch the piston.

You use high octane fuel for HIGH compression engines (9.5 or higher ratio) to reduce predetonation of the fuel (pinging).. Small engines typically have lower compression (8.5 or so ratios).. Most small engines are perfectly fine with 87 octane.