What did you do to / for your E53 today??

[Happy]

Super glad I found this yesterday. I did not know such a thing existed. I’ll be using this in my secondary injection system as well.

[workingonit]

Originally Posted by Happy

Super glad I found this yesterday. I did not know such a thing existed. I’ll be using this in my secondary injection system as well.

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I formerly couldn't always get gasoline from stations I trust (my go-to is QuikTrip) back when I drag-raced, and also commuted over 120 miles to work each day, so I used that Lucas product for questionable gas, and also Lucas Fuel Treatment as a normal additive to the QuikTrip gas.


Then, I retired, first from racing then from work, so I never had to worry about my gasoline sources, as I hardly went anywhere. But, I had several lawnmowers and other power tools (generators, weedeaters, pressure washers) that sometimes had gas go stale in them when not used, and also they really don't like gas with ethanol. So I started using this:


So, what I do now, is put some StaBil in the fuel jugs when I get home, then put some the fuel tanks of all my vehicles, as well (with only one being driven daily by the wife, the X5 sporadically by me, and the two pickups and her Cobalt, little or no miles being driven). This way, I'm protecting carburetors, fuel injectors, fuel lines on every motor/engine I own.

[nick325xit 5spd]

I should probably start using fuel treatments in the non-winter driven cars.

[bcredliner]

Never been a fan of additives other than Techron and meth. Nothing for lawn equipment especially since I went all electric.

If a vehicle is going to sit for an extended length of time I fill the tank and keep it filled with gas that has no ethanol. Then start it once a week or two and let it get to operating temp and then drive it around the block a few times. Depending on its makeup, gas will start degrading in 1 to 6 months. Ethanol degrades faster. I use Chevron gas which is 93 octane for daily driving.

No oil treatment either. I change oil and filter every 5,000 miles or so. All vehicles have always passed the stale gas smell test and haven't had any problems.

[nick325xit 5spd]

Originally Posted by bcredliner

Never been a fan of additives other than Techron and meth. Nothing for lawn equipment especially since I went all electric.

If a vehicle is going to sit for an extended length of time I fill the tank and keep it filled with gas that has no ethanol. Then start it once a week or two and let it get to operating temp and then drive it around the block a few times. Depending on its makeup, gas will start degrading in 1 to 6 months. Ethanol degrades faster. I use Chevron gas which is 93 octane for daily driving.

No oil treatment either. I change oil and filter every 5,000 miles or so. All vehicles have always passed the stale gas smell test and haven't had any problems.

Not all of us have plausible access to ethanol free gas.

[andrewwynn]

I use the app pure gas to locate when I'm not near Chicago.

If I go about 25 miles west or 50 miles north it's easy to find. 95% of my refills are E10 sadly.

[nick325xit 5spd]

Originally Posted by andrewwynn

I use the app pure gas to locate when I'm not near Chicago.

If I go about 25 miles west or 50 miles north it's easy to find. 95% of my refills are E10 sadly.

It'd be cheaper for me to have a barrel of race gas delivered than drive to a station that has 93 - especially given that we're talking three cars that get put up for the winter. And almost all of the ethanol free stations "near" me are random unbranded stations.

[Happy]

Originally Posted by andrewwynn

95% of my refills are E10 sadly.

100% of my refills are E85. And until now, I was unaware there was a fuel conditioner for E85 through E100. I personally do not trust the 15-20% of gasoline, which probably has very little additives, if any.

The main thing for me, is the atmospheric moisture absorption that is associated with high level ethanol fuels. It seems the Lucas ethanol fuel conditioner helps with stabilizing that issue, as well as conditioning the fuel which may help even more with the corrosive issues associated with ethanol. Win, Win!

My E53 is a Flex-Fuel vehicle. I am super stoked to see, what seems to be a proper Flex-Fuel additive. Until now I was completely unaware such an additive existed, because 93 octane gasoline is not my fuel of choice.

[Happy]

Dayum!! I can see myself in the mirror!

[srmmmm]

I've always used Shell premium with no additives. Original pre-cat O2 sensors lasted 260,000 miles and I didn't have to replace the catalytic converters until 379,000 miles. Never had any injector problems.


I do use the Sta-bil treatment in every tank of fuel (Shell mid-grade) in my personal watercraft though. I paid the price of a new short block from ethanol damage in the two-stroke PWC I had earlier. At least the current one is a four-stroke and can't suffer the same level of destruction.