Originally Posted by
ls01
How bad was it? We use a lot of Honda powered water pumps @ work. We have several spares that just sit around. My crew needed to service ours so I tried to find a reserve unit that would run. Everyone I tried had a carb bowl full of yellow , errr... snot...and just full of corrosion. The old fuel stabilizers and the new fuels dont work together very well. And cause more problems than they are worth.
If you can get marine fuel, or better yet aviation. It's worth it to run out the last tank of the year and use the marine blend to store it
No goop in the bowl, but there was certainly some corrosion. It hasn't been run for... close to two years?