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<blockquote data-quote="Speedtwin" data-source="post: 159977" data-attributes="member: 5012"><p>I tend to run the carbs dry when storing.</p><p>I only use super unleaded fuel (High Octane 98 low ethanol content) with added Miller ethanol killer.</p><p>Use this in the more modern stuff also as I have seen some horror stuff on some friends machines, fuel lines turning to black gunge internally which were supposedly ethanol resistant.</p><p>If I store a bike with fuel in the tank, tank full with pure super unleaded 98 octane or Av gas if I have any floating about.</p><p>We are still E10 fuel free more or less in N Ireland our neighbours in Scotland are more and more on the E10.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Caution I had AVgas in my Comet last winter came into the garage very late one night to fetch a torch and thought that's a strange smell.</p><p>Floor covered in AVgas by the time I cleaned it up was as high as a kite,bonus!</p><p>That's when I decided to wear brightly coloured clothes and change from Ewart taps to modern stainless ball valve taps.</p><p></p><p>I like to clean my carb bits in the ultrasonic with 10 to 1 carb cleaner solution the only way to prevent fuel separation and the consequences is not to use ethanol fuels drain, dry and clean away the residual fuel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Speedtwin, post: 159977, member: 5012"] I tend to run the carbs dry when storing. I only use super unleaded fuel (High Octane 98 low ethanol content) with added Miller ethanol killer. Use this in the more modern stuff also as I have seen some horror stuff on some friends machines, fuel lines turning to black gunge internally which were supposedly ethanol resistant. If I store a bike with fuel in the tank, tank full with pure super unleaded 98 octane or Av gas if I have any floating about. We are still E10 fuel free more or less in N Ireland our neighbours in Scotland are more and more on the E10. Caution I had AVgas in my Comet last winter came into the garage very late one night to fetch a torch and thought that's a strange smell. Floor covered in AVgas by the time I cleaned it up was as high as a kite,bonus! That's when I decided to wear brightly coloured clothes and change from Ewart taps to modern stainless ball valve taps. I like to clean my carb bits in the ultrasonic with 10 to 1 carb cleaner solution the only way to prevent fuel separation and the consequences is not to use ethanol fuels drain, dry and clean away the residual fuel. [/QUOTE]
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