gasoline
 

does gas stabelizer realy work. when I break my A out I will use shell bronze as it has no corn crap in it but costs about 5.20 a cn gal. 4.7 liters. the car is in storage 6 months a year and dont want more probs than nessary.

Re: gasoline
 

Real gas should not give you any problem for six months storage. Adding stabilizer would not hurt either as it really extends the length of time before the gas breaks down to varnish.

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Gasolines are made up primarily of aromatics (toluene, xylenes), paraffins (isooctane, butane, heptane, etc) and olefins. Aromatics and paraffins are very stable but olefins are like molecular nymphomaniacs and want to react with everything. They are the precursors to gums and varnishes and that's what Stabil, Seafoam, etc. stop the reactions of. The good news is that there are very few olefins in gasoline any more and stabilizers are not as needed as they once were (if at all). Like Mike says: use them if you want to, but you probably don't need to. Someone here will probably disagree, but ethanol doesn't contribute to gums or varnish - it's the same stuff that's in your 10 year old open bottle of Jack Daniels.

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A higher grade gasoline from Skelly in the 30's and 40's was sold under the name of 'Aro-max'. I have the glass gasoline globe of that brand.

Now I know where that name comes from:)

Re: gasoline
 

StayBill is great stuff

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'REAL' gas (no corn - no ethanol) will last for several YEARS without any additives, and still be good. If you are using 'Real gas', there is no need to add anything like Stabil, Sea-Foam, or other additive, in terms of keeping your gas 'alive'.

For other reasons, you may want to add things like ChemTool B-12, etc. to aid in cleaning valves, aiding lubrication, etc.

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My car sat this past year for 6 months with 3/4 tank of corn gas and no stabilizers. Started right up and no problem driving on the rest of the tank of gas.

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I'm now into StaBil for all the small power equipment (lawnmower, chain-saw, weed-whacker, generator)

I think it helps?

Joe K