Should I drain the SnoBlower?
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Should I drain the SnoBlower?
Well I already did. Of course this means we'll maybe get three feet in a week or so, but what I'm getting at it seems there's a couple different schools of thought on preparing equipment for storage. Everybody agrees that stale fuel is a bad thing, and avoid alcohol laced fuel in two stroke engines. But some mechanics claim that the carburetors shouldn't be left dry though - keep fuel in it, use a fuel stabilizer instead. Thoughts?
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i like the stabilizers but for years just ran them dry,,,,the best for them is ethonal free gas heres a list of places to get it Ethanol-free gas stations in the U.S. and Canada
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We can get ethanol free straight gasoline around here but it's quite a bit more expensive. But lawnmowers and snoblowers use so little fuel it doesn't matter.
I poured the excess fuel from the snoblower into the lawnmower and it fired right up without too much trouble.
I poured the excess fuel from the snoblower into the lawnmower and it fired right up without too much trouble.
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seems from my experience,,, i was using weed eaters when you had to pull the string out the head ,,,,those small engines are most tempermental
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I didn't care for those, at least the small retail consumer POS versions. They leaned 'em out (or something) so they wouldn't start (or restart) very easy, "CARB" regs probably.
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