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Gotta vent. I sure was pissed last night.
Pulled out the backpack blower to clean up some leaves. Damn thing wouldn't run right. Another engine goes down with fuel issues. Grrrr. That's the 4th one in the last couple months. Luckily I have a friend who gets them up and running for $25 (or $45 if he has to put in a carb rebuild kit) and back to me in a couple days.
So, frustrated and pissed off, I said the heck with this, I'm done with Ethanol gasoline in small engines.
I have a couple empty newfangled 5-gallon gas cans so I start siphoning all the gas out of the generators and such into those. While they're siphoning, I take a couple old-style 5-gallon cans I have that are full and start filling the van (and didn't spill a drop from those old cans).
Now I have 2 of those new style cans filled with gas. Go to pour it into the truck and those spouts that don't work for shit start dumping fuel all over the outside of the truck, on my pants and shoes and the shop floor. Now I'm really pissed, mainly at the government for messing up everything. They just had to fix shit that wasn't broken (like pure gasoline and 5-gallon cans).
Ended up using a funnel to dump the gas back into the old style tanks.
Got several engines drained of ethanol fuel and put in pure gas. Will do a few more engines next weekend after some of the cars burn off some gas so I have a place to dispose of the E10 crap gas.
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