Re: Recommended gasoline

Posted by Ross On 2022/1/27 14:22:03

I keep a, uh, large number of antique vehicles for my personal use as I don't have anything newer than '63. I rotate them in and out of service as the mood and weather dictates. Take a 41 Commander to the post office, the '53 Clipper to the lumber yard, and maybe my beloved Lark hardtop to dinner.
Here in MD, there is only ethanol laced gas so that is what I have been using since the boondoggle was invented. This has caused me an astonishingly small amount of trouble over the last 20 (?) years. Even the least used of the fleet will see 2 tankfuls a year. I try and put them away with tanks near full to minimize temperature driven air exchange. And that is it.

Gas tanks rusted and carbs got choked with crap long before ethanol reared its feckless head.

You would also be hard pressed to find a carb kit or fuel pump kit that won't withstand ethanol at this late date. Please find something else to worry about.

But Kev's point is very well taken. Every vehicle I get is given a complete re-do of the fuel system before it enters service. It takes less time to do that than to wait for AAA on the side of the road because of some pinhole in the fuel line hidden under a tubing clamp.