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Stihl MS500i with ethanol fuel
By: HUSKY KEV Date: May 9, 2019, 6:27 pm
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This could be interesting.
As the Stihl MS500 has no carb what are the problems likely to
be regarding ethanol based fuels?
You always hear ethanol problems related to carb powered
machines.
Modern cars seem happy on ethanol based fuel and have been fuel
injected for over 20 years.
Some very high powered supercars sometimes throw up a warning if
you use inferior fuel but i think
this is more to do with using fuel with an insufficient octane
rating.
As long as the pipes and tank hold up i dont see any problems
during regular use
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Re: Stihl MS500i with ethanol fuel
By: ChipsAhoy Date: July 2, 2019, 7:01 am
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The manufactures may have engineered out the materials that
E-fuel attacks, but that won't change the scourge of E-fuel
which is phase separation and being a magnet for water/moisture
in fuel.
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Re: Stihl MS500i with ethanol fuel
By: HUSKY KEV Date: July 2, 2019, 2:43 pm
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To be honest there are plenty of addives that reduce the
problem. Personally I use BC3 Ethonol Shield added to high
octane petrol.
I use Stihl HP Super or Ultra oil which also has additives added
to combat ethonol problems.
HTML https://b3cfuel.com/products/
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Re: Stihl MS500i with ethanol fuel
By: joe_indi Date: July 4, 2019, 7:01 am
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I follow what somebody suggested a couple of years ago. Add some
water in the fuel before adding oil. Shake it well and leave
overnight.
Carefully pour out the fuel. The Ethanol (hopefully) would have
been caught in the water.
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