why would you guys go buy engineered fuel like this Stihl MotoMix it's right here when you go
down to the gas station to fill your jug up for way way less money I know there's a lot
of you guys out there right now are saying well I just fill my jug up with premium
fuel because premium fuel is ethanol free and ethanol is the main culprit behind all
of my fuel issues and my carburetor issues on my small engine equipment there's a lot
more to the story than that you guys ethanol is a minor problem compared
to the other stuff that's in here I think I'm about to change some of your minds on
what the actual problem is that you're having between fuel and your lawn and garden equipment
welcome back to Steve's Small Engine Saloon again guys thanks for coming back hey if you'd
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got nothing special on the go guys a little bit of Budweiser going right here um Stihl Limited
Stihl Canada Limited has provided me with some awesome visual aids to help us in this video
that it's gonna make it a lot clearer a lot more easy to understand so Thank You Stihl for
providing me with that let's look at this first one this is great this is what Stihl calls the
good the bad and the ugly this is stuff that's in your fuel pump gasoline that you get right from
your gas station there's good stuff in there there's bad stuff in there and there's even
worse stuff in there so we're gonna start with the good stuff what's the good stuff in here
the good stuff in your in your fuel the the actual stuff that's actually fuel
truly is is your n-Alkane your iso-Alkane and your Naphthene these two Alkanes right
here the n-Alkane and the iso-Alkane when you combine the Alkane components together
what that makes is a true Alkylate fuel true Alkylate fuel is comprised of
pretty much nothing but paraffines and as you can see from this next one right
here MotoMix Stihl MotoMix is comprised of almost nothing but paraffines that is
your true pure Alkylate fuel right there that's what you want to have in your fuel
so there's the good stuff that's in your fuel right there what about the bad stuff
that's in here not the worst stuff but this is pretty bad yeah you guys are all one you
talked about ethanol right now okay let's talk about ethanol what is ethanol ethanol is simply
it's alcohol it's distilled from plant material almost always it's made from corn because corn
is plentiful it has sugar in it you can make alcohol out of corn what's the problem with
having alcohol in your fuel it attracts water it actually pulls water into your fuel system
and we all know that alcohol in your lawn and garden equipment whether it be a two-stroke 4
stroke 4 cycle two cycle engine we don't want water in there that's a bad thing even worse
than ethanol is your olefines olefines are chemicals that are found in your gas station
pump fuel and look what this does to your small engine two-stroke two cycle engine carburetor
right here chainsaws weed eaters blowers whatever this is what olefines do they produce this gummy
kind of residue in here and create this varnishy kind of stuff on here that plugs your carburetor
right up solid I always used to think also as well as most of you probably do too that that
was from the ethanol that is clearly not from the ethanol that is from your olefines as you
can see from this chart right here again MotoMix it's made by Stihl has almost no olefines in it
so what's the worst ugliest part of having your fuel from the fuel station like this it's not
the ethanol it's not the olefines which are also bad but even worse than that you guys
it's the aromatics it's the benzene in your fuel benzene is super bad for two different reasons I'm
going to tell you what both of those are right now number one is a health reasons benzene is
classified as being a carcinogen carcinogens are known and proven to cause leukemia in people just
in a nutshell I'm not and there's a lot more to this but just in a nutshell leukemia is pretty
much cancer in your blood I don't want to get leukemia do you the other reason that's more
relevant for us in small engine mechanics is these right here here's a little cube
carburetor from a two cycle two-stroke engine you get that metering diaphragm I've actually
done another video on this if you want to up in the I button right here and as well as at
the end of this video - I'm going to take you through a video called partial rebuild where
I really show you about these diaphragms but benzene is the culprit for doing this it makes
these little things hard and crunchy where they don't work anymore they don't flutter
up and down like that you have that in your carburetor it doesn't work anymore it's not
from the ethanol guys that's what I always used to think too - it's from the benzene and guess what
Stihl MotoMix has absolutely almost no benzene in it also it's just pure pure fuel so now that
you know all of that how does this affect something like winterizing your equipment
long-term storage maybe you're putting it away for three or four months something like that the
a lot of the manufacturers out there used to tell you they would have read their owner's
manuals they did have it on the brochures that you got in the mail a little quick tip on there
how to winterize it they would say put some fuel stabilizer in there run it for five minutes get
your whole fuel system coated with that fuel stabilizer drain it all out your whole tank
and everything and run it until it was dry hang it up like that they've changed their mind some
of the manufacturers have actually changed their minds on that line of thinking right
there the new line of thinking is now with this engineered fuel you just fill it up run it for
five minutes make sure it everything's coated in there with the engineered fuel and leave it like
that fill your tank right up to the top hang it up do whatever you do with it and the next year it's
gonna start fine because this stuff is good for two years after the can is open because there's
nothing really in there to go bad anymore it's just pure paraffines in there I got to keep it
real with you guys though sorry Stihl I've got to say this to my viewers MotoMix is not the
only engineered fuel out there because I know I'm gonna get hit with comments if I don't say this
you got other stuff you got your TruFuel you have Husqvarna makes some of this you got your
Aspen Fuel there's other ones out there that are not the exact same composition as Stihl MotoMix
but they are way better than what you get from your fuel station so that's where I'm gonna try
this year I'm gonna I'm gonna winterize all my equipment with this and do exactly what I just
said and we're gonna see how it goes next year but then I mean this stuff has been out for years now
and that's the general way of thinking from the manufacturers now I'm gonna do that I think you
guys should try that too because it just makes a lot of sense to me well I really hope that
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