Bike storage

[daves79x]

Whatever fuel you use, if you fill the tank as full as you can get it, it will stay fresh enough over 6-8 months layover that many of us have, without stabilizer. If no air can get to it, it'll be fine. I drained a tank full of unstabilized fuel that had been stored for almost 4 years and the gas looked and smelled pretty fresh. I didn't want to use it in the bike, but after seeing it, I'm sure it would have run fine.

My aversion to stabilizer came about when I stabilized 2 CBXs for winter, then the next spring both ran about 5 miles and quit. I had to completely clean the tank and remove the carbs and clean them. The stuff I found looked like jelly - it had plugged everything up and made a real mess of the inside of the tanks. Something in the fuel reacted with the stabilizer to do that. Never again.

So in my humble opinion, stabilizer is over rated and in most cases not necessary. But you have to drain the carbs.

Dave

[tevan]

Whatever fuel you use, if you fill the tank as full as you can get it, it will stay fresh enough over 6-8 months layover that many of us have, without stabilizer. If no air can get to it, it'll be fine. I drained a tank full of unstabilized fuel that had been stored for almost 4 years and the gas looked and smelled pretty fresh. I didn't want to use it in the bike, but after seeing it, I'm sure it would have run fine.

My aversion to stabilizer came about when I stabilized 2 CBXs for winter, then the next spring both ran about 5 miles and quit. I had to completely clean the tank and remove the carbs and clean them. The stuff I found looked like jelly - it had plugged everything up and made a real mess of the inside of the tanks. Something in the fuel reacted with the stabilizer to do that. Never again.

So in my humble opinion, stabilizer is over rated and in most cases not necessary. But you have to drain the carbs.

Dave

Dave,
What brand of stabilizer did you use? Stabil? Startron?

terry

[Mello]

Curious as to why you're using LRP and not unleaded.

[daves79x]

Terry:

That was 15 years ago. It was likely Stabil or POR 15 stabilizer.

Dave