Thread: Seafoam or Marine StaBil

B-12 made by Chemtool. 1oz. per gallon of fuel. The cap holds about an ounce. Best stuff I ever used. I put in in my ATV, boat motor, lawn mower, generator etc. A little goes a long way-DON'T PUT MORE THAN 1 OZ PER GALLON. It will clean out anything in your fuel system, varnish etc. Only use it once in a while. No, I don't sell it-but I'm sold on it..

Originally Posted by Procraft 176

The problem is it floods out and quits while I am on the road from time to time.That tells me it is one of two things, either the float is sticking or the needle seat is either worn or not closing.The last time I pulled the carb off of the truck, I took the float assembly off, unscrewed the needle seat housing and blew out this amber colored crust. It had built up a little and had made it's way into the housing and was not letting the needle close. While I had the float off sitting there on the table for about 5 minutes or so, naturally it dried off. It had formed this white powdery stuff on it, That is when I figured it is prolly the ethanol fuel doing this. Up until about two years ago I have never had this prob. ,then e-10 was introduced to our fuel around here and seems like everything that has a carb, from small engines to trucks has went south on me. It may or may not be ethanol, but from what I have seen of it, I can't stand it. One thing that it does for sure is reduce fuel milage and cost just as much as gasoline. It appears to me this stuff was introduced to try and conserve or wean off of arab oil. But if it takes more petro and e-10 mixed to do the same mileage as gas then the way that I see it we haven't accomplished a darn thing, but have wasted a heap of money. I am sure there are pros and cons to the stuff , but I don,t like it. If we are gonna run dino fuel at all, well by gosh lets run dino fuel, not mixed with white lightning. When it runs out then it will just be gone, the gov. new about this prob. years ago and should have done something about it, instead of waiting untill it's too late and say" oh my, we gotta do something " No $#@! sherlock !! Jus my opinion fellers.

I have an idea, and it is still related to ethanol based fuel. Ethanol is a very powerful solvent and it will remove varnish and deposits from all sorts of surfaces. Your '77 has 35 years of built up deposits inside of your fuel tank that the ethanol is liquefying and sending through your fuel system. Additionally, I'll bet the truck sat up for a bit between drivers, etc. The allows varnish and deposits to form in your tank. It only makes sense that these deposits are puddling in your bowls and accumulating on your needles as they're being dissolved. Your problem is just more apparent because your truck has had a few dozen more years to collect this crap than newer vehicles. I know for a fact that this can happen in old boats. Worse yet, old boats with fiberglass fuel tanks are being eaten from the inside out.

Napa in MS sales the Sea-foam $67 in the gallon or $10.20by the pint!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep ethanol is like sipping brew looks like water going in till ya get belly full of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Wind Knot

I have an idea, and it is still related to ethanol based fuel. Ethanol is a very powerful solvent and it will remove varnish and deposits from all sorts of surfaces. Your '77 has 35 years of built up deposits inside of your fuel tank that the ethanol is liquefying and sending through your fuel system. Additionally, I'll bet the truck sat up for a bit between drivers, etc. The allows varnish and deposits to form in your tank. It only makes sense that these deposits are puddling in your bowls and accumulating on your needles as they're being dissolved. Your problem is just more apparent because your truck has had a few dozen more years to collect this crap than newer vehicles. I know for a fact that this can happen in old boats. Worse yet, old boats with fiberglass fuel tanks are being eaten from the inside out.

That could be a strong possibility Wind Knot,but that does not explain fairly new lawn equipment gas related probs. I empty all my lawn equipment gas tanks during the off season, so it does not set in there all winter. I just wish they would let us have a choice in our fuel that we buy. Anotherwords have some gas stations with it and some without it. We used to have some around here without it, but that has now become over with. I'll bet this though, I don't know about yalls neck of the woods, but around here if we had service stations with it and some without it, the ones with it would go out of buisness.

I use seafoam in alot of my gas motors these days, but I heard something from a mechanic the other day and he said " Do not use seafoam with ethanol gas, it will turn the gas to a milky looking solution". Now with that being said have any of you guys noticed anything like that. I haven't noticed anything like that and was wondering if any of you have.

pro, i've used it for years and not one time has any gas turned milky. i'd be looking for another mechanic.

Originally Posted by olduckhunter

pro, i've used it for years and not one time has any gas turned milky. i'd be looking for another mechanic.

X-100 i used for years also and never had any issues!!!