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    Grand Master Know It All BladesNBarrels's Avatar
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    Actually, I was hoping to see an answer.
    I had a boat with 12 year old fuel and called all the marine service folks in town.
    No one would empty the tank and dispose of the fuel.
    I ended up pouring a lot of STA-BIL into the tank and running around the lake until it was down to about 10% of the tank.
    Smoke, uh-huh! Probably not too good for the 2-stroke engine.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels View Post
    Actually, I was hoping to see an answer.
    I had a boat with 12 year old fuel and called all the marine service folks in town.
    No one would empty the tank and dispose of the fuel.
    I ended up pouring a lot of STA-BIL into the tank and running around the lake until it was down to about 10% of the tank.
    Smoke, uh-huh! Probably not too good for the 2-stroke engine.
    holy feck. I'm surprised anything ran on 12yo unleaded. Maybe it was just 90% stabil by that point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by OxArt View Post
    holy feck. I'm surprised anything ran on 12yo unleaded. Maybe it was just 90% stabil by that point?
    Was down to about 60 gals in a 120 gal tank, so I put in another 40 gals, lots of STA-BIL, and ran it out.
    Fresh gas after leaving about 12-15 gals in the tank, up to about 100 gals, and the engine ran fine.
    Lucked out there, but would have preferred draining the old gas and starting over.
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