On 5/22/14, 6:10 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:

"J Burns" wrote in message
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The spring-actuated valves are like flexible washers. I'll bet they're
supposed to be rigid. Must be the gas! I just can't get good gas these
days. I shop around, but nobody around here sells the $4 stuff anymore,
and they're not willing to special order it for me. What this town needs
is an airport!


Have you looked at this site to see if anything is near you ?
http://pure-gas.org/

They list many stations that have ethanol free gas.

I switched to the ethanol free gas a couple of years ago for the small
engines and just to be sure I add in some Sta-bil to the gas. Sofar all my
small engines start and run fine. It may be over kill, but it only costs a
few dollars more per year.

Thanks, I see there's a place 6 miles from me. I wonder how they get
away with it. I thought summer gas was required to have ethanol to
reduce emissions.

Actually, it didn't occur to me that ethanol might have softened my
valves. My remarks about good gas were in fun. Whenever the price of
gas drops, I like to say I'm disappointed that I can't get the good
stuff they used to sell. At one time, when gas was red, I liked to stop
at Amoco stations to get white gas because my motorcycle seemed to run
better. Then I found out that in some parts of the country, Amoco was
red and some other brand was white.