sunfish
Fish Head
Yep, wrong fuel for stock or ported chainsaws.
91 octane OK?
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There were a few... a few odd-balls.
The one that comes immediately to mind is the 1600 engine used by Volkswagen during the '70's... ignition timing was set at 5° ATDC with the engine running at (I believe) 850 RPM's and the vacuum advance hose connected. There were a few others but I'm drawing a blank for some reason... seems like there was a Ford industrial 6-cylinder, but I may be all wet on that.
Darn good post on pre-ignition and detonation Marshy.
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No E-free here unless you go to the racetrack or airport. Airport is cheaper and is all I run.
Built Volks motors. Worst were the A-holes who took the cooling shrouds off to "make them run cooler'. Then the ones who let the encrusted gunk from oil leaks clog the cooling fins/oil cooler. They leaked as bad as Harleys, some you could track down the highway by oil spew.
The distributors that had the push/pull vac/centrifiugal advance were also a POS. The 041 mechanical advance is all I would trust/build with.
91 octane is fine for almost all saws unless running REally high compression. BUT, I WON'T run 91 octane with ETHANOL, never ever never. Maybe if I was a logger or tree service that used EVERY BIT of mix each week. Even then I'd be worried about the source, storage, and age of E10
sunfish
Fish Head
Any marinas around? Many boat motors are not to be run at all on E-gas!
deerhunter77
ArboristSite Lurker
Well we just had a Hy-Vee open up the other day. They have ethanol free 91. That makes me happy. That way when i get my 361 back from the monkey I can feed her good fuel.
I've been gettin' my 91 from the Hy-Vee gas station for some number of years now... it's been good consistent stuff.
'Course, that in no way means your station will have the same consistency... but... just sayin'.
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'Course, that in no way means your station will have the same consistency... but... just sayin'.
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ShaneLogs
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I run 110 octane VP race gas in my saws. I can get it at a small airport about 20 miles from my house. You can get 95 octane non-ethanol gas just a stone throw over the river from me in New Brunswick, Canada. Their high octane over their is non-ethanol while the regular gas has ethanol. I get my VP 110 octane for about $8 per gallon.
