This Will Destroy Your Emergency Generator! Don't Make This Mistake

Why do you have to be such a clown? Very distracting...

As a master small engine mechanic I appreciate your video on this topic. I've tried to tell people for years about this and why their machines, (especially chainsaws) are damaged by it. One thing to add to your video. If you get your ethanol free fuel from a station with one hose for all grades. Put the first 2 to 3 gallons in you car then switch to your gas can. Other wise you get 2 to 3 gallons of whatever the last person pumped. And if you're filling a 2.5 gallon can...... Well you're screwed.

Dude, your video quality and entertainment value has skyrocketed over the past year. Good job!

My advice, no matter what kind of gasoline, is to NEVER shut off the engine with the ignition switch. It's much better, to cut off the fuel valve, and let the carburetor float bowl run out of gas. (engine unloaded, of course) After the float bowl runs out of gas, wait a few minutes, to allow the fuel line to drain into the float bowl, put on the choke, and pull the starter cord again. The engine will often start again. Having the choke on, helps the engine vacuum the last bit of residual fuel out of the idle circuit, as well as the emulsion tube and the main circuit. Never allow fuel to just evaporate out of the carburetor, or there will be gum, varnish, or corrosion, none of it good! The big problem with ethanol, is that it is an electrolyte, not a dielectric! that invites galvanization of dissimilar metals within the carburetor. Keep in mind, you have an aluminum carburetor body, with a steel float bowl, held in with a brass bolt. The float is brass arms, supported on a steel hinge pin, held in aluminum castings of the carburetor body. Plenty of places for a white aluminum gel like substance to form, leaving pits throughout the entire carburetor body. If that happens, just buy a new carburetor! All those problems can be solved, if the carburetor is completely drained of fuel, after every use.

Excellent video! We keep 60 gallons of gas (E10), that is always treated with stabilizer, stored away for our generator. It lasts a year no problem. Big thing to remember! Always turn off the fuel and run the generator until it dies. That way all of the ethanol is out of the carburetor. If you don’t trust E10 to last a year, just cycle your fuel through your vehicles and keep the cans fresh every few months. Whatever floats your boat.

Another important tip is to turn off the fuel switch, and run the carb dry before you put it away. That way you do not have a nice full float bowl of fuel to turn into varnish and block the jets. That way the only place the fuel is is in the tank and the switch, and nowhere else.

I have a friend who works on small engines like lawn mowers and snow blowers as well as generators. He recommended to me years ago to use the Blue "Marine" Stabil instead of the Red one. I have never had an issue related to fuel in any of my small engines since.

I'm so glad that there are stations near me that sell Ethanol-free gasoline - 91 octane. It's great stuff. We run it in all our small engines, classic tractors, and boat!

In our town, we have a gas station run by an old school guy, and when I asked about ethanol free, he said "we've always had ethanol free and never had that sh!t gas." It's like a legit old man gas station, no computer pumps and a grizzly old guy in the corner talking to the owner.

This video had me laughing so much, WHICH I NEEDED😅! Your family is so blessed and fortunate to have you in their lives❣️

Please never ever stop being such a goofball .. the fun really keeps my attention and I end up absorbing it all Thanks for the information! You're quite the teacher!

I was trying to fix my surging generator engine, but now I'm just watching all your videos. Bravo ol' chap... bravo 👏

Awesome, Adam. I had no idea that ethanol contained so much wooder.

This is a hilarious video...I laughed the whole time, nice comedy. The fun part of this is that additives cause the problems. I loathe E10 for that reason. Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, by far. If you run on straight ethanol your engine will not wear, there are no carbon deposits clogging everything. Take an ethanol engine apart after a million miles and it will look brand new inside, with minimal wear in the cylinders. They do that in Brazil all the time, taxis run hydrous ethanol down there and the engines go forever. It also runs cooler, makes more power, and you can run a lot of compression on E85 and straight ethanol. I daily drive 11.5:1 and 13:1 iron head 455 Pontiacs on E85 and E100 that I make from tree sap and cattails. My carbs, fuel tanks, pumps, injectors, and lines are all spotless running E85 from northern Wisconsin, and home made E100. Yeah I run it in Qjets, Holleys, FiTech EFI, and non flex factory LS fuel systems. Additives in other locations can cause problems, and I am not the only one to find that. Go to onallcylinders and look up Jeff Smith's article about corrosion. The 70 GTO has been on E85/E100 since 2007 when I converted my first Qjet, thanks to $5 87 octane back then. The 65 GTO has been on it since 2018. No problems with either one. So how many decades does it take to cause a problem? Wanna know what the other fun thing is? That 'new study' is based on an old one done by a Cornell uni prof who studies bugs, his name is Pimental. He went to great lengths to make it worse than gasoline... bad inputs = bad outputs, it didn't make it through peer review because of how badly he skewed the results and inputs. Who funded his 'study'? An oil company did... might be why they got a bug guy to do it. He had no skin in the game so he could make things up at will. Ethanol leaves nothing behind when it evaporates or burns, if it did you'd be drinking it and finding it in the bottom of bottles and cans. Let that sink in a bit... Whiskey, bourbon, wine, beer, even those white claw things have some in them, its all the same stuff. Yeast eat sugar, and excrete ethanol and CO2. When you burn ethanol the only thing it emits is Co2 and H2O. Gasoline emits and leaves a whole lot more stuff than Co2 and H2O. Co, nox, particulates, all kinds of nastiness. Adding water to it merely lowers the proof, when you get low enough proof, like 140 or 30% water, then you start losing power. Richard Holdener showed that quite well with his moonshine test. Not all stills are created equal. It will still burn, still run the engine, and won't harm anything because of how water bonds to ethanol. Its a bond so tight on the molecular level that you need a still to separate them. If you add one gallon of water to one gallon of ethanol, you do not get two gallons of liquid. You get quite a bit less. Ethanol will mix with water or gasoline, but not both. That is not rocket science. Water and gasoline do not mix, which is why water in a gasoline tank is a bad thing, get enough and the pick up in the bottom of the tank will get water, and without ethanol, methanol (they are very different fuels) or isoprolyl in it, water will not burn. So many people have no idea about ethanol, and so many people give erroneous or irrelevant information to people. Its amusing at this point, and when gas prices go up all of this starts coming out to keep people from realizing they can make fuel themselves and run everything on it for dirt cheap. Why do I make fuel from cattails and tree sap? Because my cost is 40 cents a gallon, I can run 13:1 compression with iron heads and 40 degrees of advance, and it makes unholy power in a 455 Pontiac like that... 20mpg with a Qjet if I can manage to keep my foot out of it in the 70 GTO with its 13:1 compression. Oh, didn't you know? Raising the compression ratio not only makes more power, it raises the efficiency and improves mileage too. How much more power does ethanol make? I direct you to Engine Masters with David Freiburger and the Steves where they put a blower on a BBC with a tunnel ram, and made over 100ftlbs more, and it dropped the intake temps 100F degrees over gasoline with an intercooler vs E85 with no intercooler. The transmissions in my GTOs and the rear tires hate ethanol, because they take a beating from the torque. You can also watch John Wilburn's livestream where he and I talk about all this stuff, since I have been running it and testing it for more than 15 years. I had more problems running race gas in the 1990s than I have had running ethanol since 2007. Rubber hose, accelerator pumps, gaskets, and fuel pumps last longer with ethanol than they did on race gas or pump gas. The varnish left in my tanks from race gas made them useless, and rusty inside. Ethanol leaves them spotless, unless it has the additives that leave the yellow gel or the white chalky stuff. My 1998 Formula requires 92 octane with its LS1 engine, so it always got premium and around here that is no ethanol. Guess what happened when it sat for two years. The pump varnished solid and the tank rusted inside from condensation. So not only do I have to fix the rear end, I have to replace the tank, sender, and pump too. The problem is the additives they put in, and the craptastic gasoline they mix with ethanol then sell to all of you fine people. Remove the ethanol and you drop the octane a lot more than you think, but on a small engine with 7:1 compression, it doesn't really matter since they will run on 70 octane relatively easily.

Ran 90rec in my 5.7 tundra and only got 1mpg gain vs 87e. I was also told that if you have been using non ethanol gas that a film builds up in the tank over time and switching back to ethanol gas will break up that film and cause issues with injectors and filters. Good content. Thank you

I love the way you teach! 😂 Makes it fun to learn! It’s really helpful.

I DIDN"T KNOW the ethanol gasoline was bad for my generator or any small engines!!! I went to start my and it is leaking gas everywhere. Now I need to order new replacement part, hoses , etc. Thank you for the informative and valuable information

Seriously? I thought I was the only person that drinks gasoline. Thank you for making me feel like I’m not alone out here!!!

Man, your video editing effects are getting so much better - nice job.

It takes more energy to make the ethanol, AND WATER, than it gives back. Were sucking the Colorado river watershed dry- yet we waste water and fuel on corn for ethanol. Brilliant!