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Old 05-15-2014, 01:01 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by jmen24 View Post
Been 8 years for me on just one of my pieces of equipment and it fired up for the first time this season on the first pull last night. This has been standard procedure, from when I managed a landscaping crew with commercial equipment to my current personal equipment that is also commercial. I wouldn't handle it any other way!

The only thing I don't do this with is my motorcycle, but that is fuel injected and the last tank gets run as low as possible, while being heavily treated.
I have been too, but when speaking with Mark Richter, he noted that now he is finding that when the ethanol dries, it dries out the seals as well, making them brittle.

He recommended draining the tank and putting some of the new non-ethanol fuel (aviation fuel works too) that many of the equipment makers produce into the tank and running it to get it into the carb.
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