Public Service Announcement: Avoiding Ethanol

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Originally Posted by Seth Swoboda

It's always good practice to avoid ethanol gas for many reasons. If you drive your early Ford weekly, you'll likely have no problems.

On my small engines, Stihl chainsaws, string trimmer, leaf blower, ethanol gas will destroy the carburetor every year.

On my zero turn lawn mower, Kohler engine, the engine will start almost immediately with pure gas. If I fill up with ethanol, it cranks longer before starting.

I realize that it's very difficult to source pure gas for many folks. I keep 200-300 gallons of pure gas on the farm for all carburetor engines.

Seth, I have to wonder if the issues you have occasionally with your small engines has to do with age of the engines?
I have a Stihl chainsaw and a Toro with 23hp Kohler, a Honda trimmer (4 cycle), etc. They are all within three years of age except the Toro which is about fifteen now.
Never have I experienced any issues and I use nothng but ethanol fuels.