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Avgas contains a small amount of lead. I believe the lead lubricates the valves and actually makes the engine run cooler. I have been happy with my results over the last few years in generators,atvs,pumps. I now only use avgas in my old military mule. It runs much better and quieter on avgas.
 
71sschevelle said:
I put aviation fuel in all my gasoline powered engines that aren't run very often. Since doing that I haven't had any carburetor or fuel filter problems at all.
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You know why?....cause its loaded with all the good stuff we had in the 1960 leaded gas and more.

I raced with both unleaded and leaded and you engine temps will run way cooler on leaded gas....water temps will stay the same just the ouside of the engine will run cooler.....why all you have mostly now is fuel injection engines now.
Been 10 years ago since I raced....my 10 to 1 engine ran unleaded sunoco 94 and my big motor 13 to 1 ran 110. Now 94 was 1.50 and 110 was 3.00 a gallon. Guess what....the 10 to 1 with 94 took twice as much gas as my 13 to 1 110 motor.
So I used the same amount of money in gas in both engines but made alot more power and better gas millage with leaded gas.
I remmber as a kid my mom and dad had a 1963 nova with a 6 cyl with a poweglide and that thing got 28 miles to the gallon.
Really gone nowere with gas millage since....but that 63 nova cost 2500 dollars....now you get to pay 30,000 for about the same value.
Thinking back its been about 20 years since a carb on a car maybe longer.
In my street car have to mixed 5 gallons of 110 with 15 gallons of unleaded just to keep it from the vapor lock.
Carbs and hoods won't let the high temps out so you vapor lock at idle.....
Even small engine like to vapor lock if idled to long if its warm outside.
Fuel injection is coming to small engines in a few years because of the vapor lock problem.

Art
 
Here's a website that lists stations that sell ethanol-free gasoline on a state by state basis. http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp
Avgas definetly has a longer shelf life than mogas. I've seen planes that have been stored for a couple of years with full tanks in Midwest weather and the avgas was still fine.
I use ethanol free gas in my small engines with Fuel Fresh stabilizer. I have a generator that has had that mix in it for 2 years and it's still good to go. (Fuel Fresh private labels for Briggs). Never had much success with Stabil...
 
never thought of plane fuel but now that you mention it there is a little airport about 2 miles from my house and they have a tank they keep their fuel in they don't have any planes flying in and out of their other than one that take sky divers up and drops them off right above our house during the summer so that fuel in their storage tank must sit for a long time before it's used i might go there one day and see if i can buy some and try it out.i try to burn ethanol free gas in my small generator but my welding machines sorry to say gets mainly ethanol gas because i don't really have the time to ride all the way past shriever to fill up when i'm in houma useing it.the one thing i do notice about ethanol gos is if you leave it in the can or tank it will evaporate really fast. i fill some cans up and in less than two weeks they are a 1/4 of the way gone when i use them. i wonder if they ever done a test to see how long the ethanol stays in the fuel before it's evaporated is there any kind of home test yu can do to see how much goes and stays in the fuel? if all the ethanol evaporates in a week or so when letting it set i wonder if it's possible to buy some gas and leave the cap off or loose and let the ethanol evaporate ? something else i have been wondering about the gas evaporateing is if i loose a 1/4 of my 5 gallon can in a few weeks what about the gas stations how much do they loose and do they even no that some of their profits are going right out the vent lines on their tanks? i will be looking into that plane fuel for sure though sinse the strip is right next to my house it might be a good long term fuel for me to store thanks for that tip...
 
yea tell me about it.lmao they jump out the plane right over my house and then they glide their way back down to the air strip. the swamp starts at the end of my street and all around me is canefields . you would think your safe in the field but a few years ago we was rideing in the field on the rhino and hpx and we came across a 10 foot gator sitting in the road . it was just sitting there at first we thought it was dead but we wasn't about to get out and go check so we drove to the highway and called 911 and they sent out the gator guy to come catch it when he seen how big and fat it was he said he was to old to fight with one that big so he shot it and we drug it all the way to the highway for him and helped him load it up in his truck. he asked us if we wanted the meat from it and we said "may yea" so he gave us his address and told us to give him about an hour then come on by if i remember it filled up a 100 quart ice chest full of nice cleaned gator meat,lol i got 2 1 gallon ziploc bags of meat left from it i got some pictures of it in the field and after we loaded it inhis truck the guy weighed it at his house and said it was just under 900lbs and 10' on the nose.here's some pictures of it. this is the same road me and the wife take the dogs walk in the afternoon thats why i carry my .45 with me and my .22 the .22 is for snakes and the .45 is for hogs and wild coy dogs. when someone tells you to watch where you walk down here take their word for it .something as simple as a nice little walk in the field is deadly down here. up north you might get bit by a rattle snake but down here you can get all ate up and never seen again.


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yea they do make some nice boots for sure.back when i was younger me and my little brother used to trap minks and coons and we would skin and dry out the furs we did do a few gator skins of all the animals we trapped i would have to say i would rather go head to head with a gator rather than a mink .those little minks are some if not the meanest little animals in the world. with a gator you just have to get around him and get on his back and hang on but a mink there is no jumping on his back it's just a fight to the death. i remember one mink we caught we hit him in the heat with our stick and put him in the burlap sack . when we got home we got my mom to come outside and see it i untied the sack and dumped it out on the cement needless to say he wasn't dead but he sure was ticked off at us for hitting him in the head. he took off after us and we ran like we never ran before. we ended up finishing him off with a shovel because he surely wasn't gonna leave without getting a piece of us.lol

as for that gator in the pictures we trackes his trail all the way back to the bayou in the swamp i used the odometer on my rhino to measure the distance and it was just over 2 miles. never think that just because your miles away from the swamp or bayou that you won't run into one because that gator walked for a long ways . asked the guy why he would walk that far away from the bayou and he said that a bigger male gator probably ran him out of the teritory so he could have the females to himself. i tend to believ that because where we tracked him from is the same place me and my brother ran across a huge 12 footer when frogging one night. that same gator got my buddies collie too took her down and we never saw that dog again . that collie weighed atleast 75lbs she was full grown and that gator took her down in one swoosh all we seen was a swirl in the water. that gator is still there to this day he was atleast 12 foot and that was 30 years ago so i figure he's probably hitting the 14 foot mark by now.
 
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