How fuel stabilizers work...or not

dedmiston wrote:
There's a surprising amount of passion here about AV fuel.

We used to stop at the airstrips in Baja on our way down to Mulege because the regular Pemex fuel was so horrible. Dad had the stocker tank and two aux tanks and tried rationing the American gas for the known grades along the drive. Even diluting their horrible gas with his gas from home, the trucks still pinged like crazy.

Totally worth it. I loved those trips.

I was surprised as well. Thought I was just sharing an easy workaround for, all too common, how long is the gas good for, how old is it, did I drain that weedeater last fall, etc type of questions.

Never imagined it would illicit such a response....lol!

But then again, an hour of my time, or a generator that doesn't start when the power goes out and I'm 300miles from home and the wife n kids are firing it up, heck, just the hour of my time is worth about 12.63 gallons of AV gas!
I used to spend more time n money "winterizing" fuel systems than I spend on better fuel!

Case in point, I pulled the ole power saw out of the shed last weekend. Pretty sure last time I used it was late last winter, tree across the road from a storm. It took about 6 pulls to lighter up and ran like a champ!