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I know this has been discussed, but hopefully I am not recovering something. Our 53-62 Corvette Club has a Tech Session twice a year, and the one speaker today discussed the Ethanol issue here in California. In a nut shell, the gas stinks, and when mixed with Ethanol, and the water that it absorbes, creates Salitic Acid. In vehicles that are not often driven, this attacks exposed internal Pot Metal ( Carburetors, Fuel Meters etc)and erodes fuel and vacumne lines. Back in the early 90's, GM had issues with some sort of Injection nozzles being eaten up, until they converted them to plastic. They sent out an internal memo to use Automatic Trany fluid in your gas tank. Our Corvette tanks are small, and they recommend 1/2 quart to a tank of gas. It stops the erosion, softens fuel lines and vacumne lines to keep them from cracking, and will not foul out plugs. When I lived back east, to park them for the winter, we would bring it up to a fast idle, and pour it down the carb until smoke, and then shut it down. Next spring fired right up, no problems. Just new nonsynthetic Tranny Fluid.

Well that leaves you 2 options.

1 stabil fuel stabilizer

2 Drive it more

Drive it to work once a week, We all now it would make your day better any how.

Use Pri G it can be found on the net You will never use Stabile Again.

What is so bad about Stabil? I have used it in various equipment and cars over the years and not had any problems. But I will look at the Pri G.

I think I will stay with stabil, Have you looked at the Price of Pri G?

my ol truck gets run nearly every day of the year in any weather, and after about 15 years running E10 and minimal maintenance it still starts instantly and runs as well as can be expected from 50 year old technology, no "Salitic Acid" problem, whatever that may be .... and I would bet that the additives in ATF [really a gear lube] would play hell with modern engine sensor systems and void any warranty you might have

like Granpa sez, just drive it, problem solved, but if you're going to have gas engines that are only used part time, the best way to handle the sityation is to drain the system of all traces of gasoline -the tank, lines and carb- when putting it away for storage .... like the ol snowblower that sometimes doesn't get run for a couple years

Bill

The problem with Stabil is that once you open it, you're supposed to use it up within two years. It's on the label.

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I've ran mine on E10 from day 1(only thing available here, other than E85), runs just fine on it.

Just watch those rubber lines close. But it probably would be a good idea to do that regardless of what fuel you use.