On Sep 15, 1:45 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
This from a thread in rec.aviation.owning:

Leave unleaded mogas in your lawnmower for a year, and it
likely won't start. Autogas lacks the stabilizer package found in
avgas.

You know, I've heard that ever since I started using mogas in my
planes, but I've never seen a cite, nor have I *ever* noticed a
problem with unleaded gasoline in *any* of my lawn mowers, leaf
blowers, or snow blowers.

I put 'em away in the spring/winter, and start 'em up the following
winter/summer -- and away we go. Same with my Honda Goldwing -- I
top
it off, and it just sits till next year. No troubles.

Can anyone point me to anything that proves (or disproves) the "fact"
that unleaded mogas deteriorates faster than avgas?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

It depends where you live. Out here in California they put corn or
whatnot in the autogas. If you leave that stuff in your mower or weed
eater for even 30 days you'll spend the next 30 days in the shop. I've
had my current weed eater in the shop 3 times this year just to clear
out the carb due to the crappy gas. The shops recommend always running
then dry and never, ever, storing gas for me than 30 days. Even at
that you need to have the lines cleaned to remove the sludge that the
mogas creates.

-Robert