Yes, it may cost you 50¢ if you don't plan ahead a bit.
I've usually drained mine, but with stabilizer, it can last over the winter. Come to think of it, my mower has not had gas in it for two years now. I pay the neighbor to do mine now.
I've never worried about it one way or the other and my mower has always started up normally the next year.
Me too. I usally put the Stabil into the empty petrol container first before I go to the filling station. That way the Stabil is mixed well and acts on the "fresh" petrol. I have never had any issues with petrol deposits. I just store the mower over winter basically "as is". Half full, full or empty ....
Best, Mike.
Many an old fart will use this stuff:
TDD
whens the last time you purchased "sta-bil" ???? "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
cnews: snipped-for-privacy@news.supernews.com...9> on 9/25/2007 5:42 PM The Freon Cowboy said the following:A>> cheapest solution is to run it drye>@>4> At $3.00 a gallon?f3Yes, it may cost you 50¢ if you don't plan ahead a bit.weI've usually drained mine, but with stabilizer, it can last over the winter. 6Come to think of it, my mower has not had gas in it for two years now. I npay the neighbor to do mine now.
on 9/26/2007 6:57 AM The Freon Cowboy said the following:
A 10 oz bottle of Sta-Bil costs around $5.
10 oz will treat 25 gallons of gas. How much gas does a lawn mower hold? One half Gal at most ? That works out to be 50 years of Sta-Bil use from one bottle. $5 divided by 50 = 10 cents per year.
Do what Briggs and Stratton recommends. Put fuel preservative in the tank and fill it up. An empty tank is subject to condensation.
John
either way,treat that last tank of fuel with stabilizer. when you run one out of gas,there is still some fuel in the carb bowl that needs the stabilizer so it wont turn to gum.
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Note -- Stabil has a shelf life -- I don't know what the spec says, but I do know that a two-year-old unopened bottle of Stabil had deteriorated and had to be thrown out, with black chunks of gunk floating in the liquid, so the shelf life is apparently less than two years --
I wonder if there's a product which can be used to prolong the life of Stabil --
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