Can I Remove ETHANOL From My Gas? (DAY 15)

DAY 15 of ⭐30 DAYS OF QUESTIONS⭐ Can I Remove ETHANOL From My Gas? Steve will let you know!
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[recsite]

Purchased a new snow blower in 2020, gassed it up, ran it, then no snow for 2 years. First snow, wouldn't start. Ethanol destroyed the carb, had to have it replaced, over $100. Since then I remove the ethanol using the water method, never had a problem since, I use it in the snow blower, lawn tractor, mower, blower and all my small engines. No issues with the lower octane.

[phantomphixer]

Been separating ethanol for years.
Been using it in my airplane
Cheaper than a gas.
I do 20 gallons of gas with 2 gallons of water.
2 gallons of water now become 4 gallons of ethanol/water.
I use a cone bottom tank., I always do it outside, and I use 5psi of air flowing up from the bottom of the tank. I call it "churning the butter"
Now the good part
Regular has 10%
Mid grade is 8%
Premium 6%.
Ethanol and you get high octane back using premium but how much do you need at any one time?
Leave the waste in a vented bucket and put a grate one and let the ethanol evaporate.
Taaddaaaa

[stevenandriulaitis]

You're absolutely right that ethanol creates havoc for carbureted small engines.
My boat with a Yamaha 4 stroke carbureted outboard engine would not start at all after having E10 gas sitting in the tank for a couple of months.
I tried starting it with shots of ether to no avail.
After completely draining the fuel system and filling it with fresh fuel, I finally got it to start after numerous attempts.
Here's the thing I did.
I want to store my outboard without having this issue every season. So I went to the gas station and bought a couple of gallons of 93 octane fuel.
I poured it into a couple of empty jugs, filled each jug about 2/3 full. I added about a quart of water to each jug, and shook each jug vigorously for about a minute or so. Left them for about a minute or so, and you could already see the separation. The fuel was cloudy, so I let it sit overnight.
The next day, the fuel sitting on top in each jug was crystal clear, and the separation point was clearly about 10% higher than it initially was, so that proved visual confirmation that the ethanol had gone into the water. I carefully siphoned the fuel from each container - and I will now use that fuel to store all my small engined power equipment and my boat - as ethanol free fuel will not absorb water and create corrosion issues.
That might be why you'd want to do this! 😆
Anyways Steve, I've been a fan of your channel for quite some time and have found great information here on many occasions.
Thank you for making quality videos and please do keep 'em coming. Cheers.. 🍻

[dougharlow]

Yes it is some work, but I just purchased 4 Cycle Ethanol-Free Fuel 2.1 Gal from Home Depot, , $44.98 + tax. VERY EXPENSIVE. Great video. thanks

[jjw]

Our local fill station use to never have non ethanol fuel. The current owner is a motorcycle rider and we now have non ethanol 91 octain.

[aaronpowell]

I used to do that for my small engines before our local fuel distributor installed a dedicated non ethanol gas pump. No clue on the actual number but I've heard you lose roughly 3 octane points by removing ethanol from e-10 gasoline. I always started with 92, hoping I'd end up with atleast 89.

[ironmover]

I’ve done this procedure, , I added food coloring to my water before adding it to the gas, , very easy to see the separation. It definitely lowers octane rating, , was ok in my lawnmower and weed trimmers, but my ATV had spark knock like crazy.. so, you decide !

[hirampritchard]

Hey Steve and April, made up some of your Acetone and ATF fluid mix for frozen nuts and bolts and man did it work great. Awesome.

[blueboatone]

I used to have lots of trouble in small engines due to ethanol. For the past several years I've added Startron and have had zero trouble. Put it in your can when you buy your gas and you don't have to wonder if you remembered.

[freefuel]

My #1 question, what to do with the water/ethanol mixture after you remove it from the gas.

[levent]

I have to re-watch April"s smile hypnotized me. Hi April and Steve

[jeffb]

Science with Steve. I'm sure if your carb gets gummed up, you have a video of how to rebuild it. Doesn't running your carb dry after each use help with carb issues?

[gearhead]

If you have no source of E0 locally, this would be a good thing to do for winter storage of OPE (mowers, edgers, tillers, trimmers, etc). Those engines typically can tolerate lower octane, and the de-ethanoled fuel will have a better chance of not gumming up the carbs over winter. ATV's and the like have higher compression engines that are more likely to knock. Your only choice with those engines is to run them at least once a month.

[Grayhawk]

We're lucky we have a buc-ee's in Richmond ky. The non-ethanol fuel pup has its own hose!

[donnellykieranj]

You are absolutely correct. Removing the ethanol will definitely reduce your octane rating. Here in Ireland I purchase unleaded 97 for my 2 stroke machines as on the whole it contains zero ethanol or 5% at most.

[charlescoker]

6 years ago Steve did a video telling ethanol gas contains olefins, and benzine. Olefins is what causes the varnish build up. The alcohol cause the rust in the bowl. Benzine destroys the metering Diaphragm in 2 cycle engines.

[tduic]

Hi Steve and cheers from Croatia, a small but beautiful country in south eastern Europe. I'm watching your channel for quite some time, being a DIYer, having all kinds of engines and such, also a BScME in mech. engineering. Here in Europe most of gasoline has a max 5% of ethanol added. I'm totally ignoring it, and never had any problems in 2stroke or 4stroke engines. Yes it's corrosive, yes it can eat up o-rings and gaskets, but many claims are exaggerated, especially for 2strokes where you can mitigate most problems with high quality 2stroke oil. Since using Stihl HP Ultra oil, and that's like 2-3 years now, I never had cold start problems in any of my 2stroke engines. And I'm not replacing carb membranes each year like I did before when I was using regular Stihl red oil. So I'm not sure whether all this methanol hullabaloo is even worth bothering. Tell me if I'm wrong.

[dmmflys]

Do the additives/stabilizers that have that correct for ethanol work? There is nowhere within 50 miles that have no ethanol gas.

[charlescoker]

If you go to a station selling non ethanol gas. If there is only one fueling hose for all the different octane gases. Top off your vehicle first to clean the hose of the ethanol gas.