5 stand wrote:I've used the blue marine staybil in my boat since 2012 and it's never failed me... If my memory is correct, year before last I went from February to September and never started it and never did anything, change the fuel in tank but not the lines or the carburetor and it fired right up and run just fine... But I've always seemed to be lucky with these outboard motors, I've also only owned two in my 23-years of duck hunting...
If it works for you, it works for you, but the blue Marine Stabil was what let me down, though it may have had help from some outside source. Not that the engine has ever tasted ethanol, I won't even let get guys replace borrowed gas for fear they'll do so with ethanol-added. But our boat slips are on land peopled by gremlins, and strange things have happened in fuel tanks there.
Duck Engr wrote:Seafoam snob here. Also fortunate to have a ethanol free station a few blocks from the house here in town.
Years back, I guided a fellow with a chain of East Coast equipment rentals, where small engines might need to crank up after months of down time, and he turned me onto Sea Foam. Had great luck with it and came to think of it as "tune-up in a can". But a boat engine mechanic friend got me to try Star Tron Enzyme Fuel Treatment a couple years back, and it had been fine, too. Just had a brain fart and bought something more readily available at the time. Wouldn't bet it was the stabilizer, but know which of those I'll bet on in the future, just in case.