Wow!
Took my daughter to her first Snowmobile Safety Course last night,...
Great stuff (to re-fresh the memory banks),....
Anyway,...
The instructor (Who does an Awesome job),....also works at the local Polaris Dealership.
He pulls out this large "test tube" filled with (what looks like oil on bottom, water on top),
and asks the crowd "Does Anyone know what this is?",... then continues.
He said, "Just the other day, a customer came in with his ATV and said that he couldn't keep in running,.....So, After going through everything, and still not being able to get acceptable results,.. we drained the gas, and THIS is what we found!"
After about 30 days or so, of sitting,... the Ethanol SEPARATES from the gas. In the test tube, the bottom half,... (which looked like gas) was the Ethanol,... the top half (which looked like water) was the Gas! He then shook it up,... and after about 30 seconds,....
it separated again! He said "Once this happens, it will NOT mix back to the way it came out of the pump!" AMAZING!.
So,.... the ETHANOL sits at the bottom of the tank,... and the gas at the top,....
and Where is the line for the fuel pick up located? Of course,... at the bottom of the tank.
He mentioned that during that 40 day dry spell last summer,... many folks didn't have to mow their lawns,.... so what happened the next time they tried? He said they got at least 25 mowers in with the engines shot,... because of this Same situation.
I guess, I have to play the role of stupid here. I've "heard" of the ethanol rant,....
but until I saw this,.... never really paid much attention.
Wow!,... Lucky none of my stuff has YET to get wrecked.
He went on,... about how the ETHANOL people never considered (or maybe not cared), what that product does to 2-stroke and other smaller engines. It was Made for Automobiles. He mentioned also,... that it was either Michigan Tech OR Northern Michigan just recieved a grant to study how adding even MORE to the gas,.... (a 15% mixture) would effect snowmobiles and other "Like" engines! YIKES!
He noted that "We TRIED to light the ETHANOL-only, once it had separated,.... and it would Not light. In fact, it put OUT the flame everytime."
So,...
I found out that if I add the recommened amount of this product called: "Star Brite" (and there are others out there) to the tank of the vehicle or machine that may be "sitting around" for a month,... this can help prevent "the separation" from happening.
Guess what I'M going out to buy today? Glad I went along and "learned" something!
)
Wow!
I might be reading those "tech" threads a litter more closely from now on.
CORN IS FOR FOOD, NOT For GAS.
Always something.
Of course, many of You probably knew this,... just thought I'd throw my 2 cents worth in there from an actual "Visual" experience.
Never to OLD to Learn something NEW.
THINK * SNOW!
Took my daughter to her first Snowmobile Safety Course last night,...
Great stuff (to re-fresh the memory banks),....
Anyway,...
The instructor (Who does an Awesome job),....also works at the local Polaris Dealership.
He pulls out this large "test tube" filled with (what looks like oil on bottom, water on top),
and asks the crowd "Does Anyone know what this is?",... then continues.
He said, "Just the other day, a customer came in with his ATV and said that he couldn't keep in running,.....So, After going through everything, and still not being able to get acceptable results,.. we drained the gas, and THIS is what we found!"
After about 30 days or so, of sitting,... the Ethanol SEPARATES from the gas. In the test tube, the bottom half,... (which looked like gas) was the Ethanol,... the top half (which looked like water) was the Gas! He then shook it up,... and after about 30 seconds,....
it separated again! He said "Once this happens, it will NOT mix back to the way it came out of the pump!" AMAZING!.
So,.... the ETHANOL sits at the bottom of the tank,... and the gas at the top,....
and Where is the line for the fuel pick up located? Of course,... at the bottom of the tank.
He mentioned that during that 40 day dry spell last summer,... many folks didn't have to mow their lawns,.... so what happened the next time they tried? He said they got at least 25 mowers in with the engines shot,... because of this Same situation.
I guess, I have to play the role of stupid here. I've "heard" of the ethanol rant,....
but until I saw this,.... never really paid much attention.
Wow!,... Lucky none of my stuff has YET to get wrecked.
He went on,... about how the ETHANOL people never considered (or maybe not cared), what that product does to 2-stroke and other smaller engines. It was Made for Automobiles. He mentioned also,... that it was either Michigan Tech OR Northern Michigan just recieved a grant to study how adding even MORE to the gas,.... (a 15% mixture) would effect snowmobiles and other "Like" engines! YIKES!
He noted that "We TRIED to light the ETHANOL-only, once it had separated,.... and it would Not light. In fact, it put OUT the flame everytime."
So,...
I found out that if I add the recommened amount of this product called: "Star Brite" (and there are others out there) to the tank of the vehicle or machine that may be "sitting around" for a month,... this can help prevent "the separation" from happening.
Guess what I'M going out to buy today? Glad I went along and "learned" something!
)Wow!
I might be reading those "tech" threads a litter more closely from now on.
CORN IS FOR FOOD, NOT For GAS.
Always something.
Of course, many of You probably knew this,... just thought I'd throw my 2 cents worth in there from an actual "Visual" experience.
Never to OLD to Learn something NEW.
THINK * SNOW!
