From: Power Equipment Trade.com The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a new label for E15 fuel pumps, alerting consumers to the higher ethanol/gasoline blend of 15% ethanol after approving E15 as a standard transportation fuel in 2010. Last October, EPA granted the ethanol industry a waiver approving the use of E15 in 2007 and newer light-duty vehicles. Earlier this year, EPA extended the waiver to include 2001-06 model year...

E10 (10 percent ethanol/90 percent gasoline) fuel that has come to dominate the market over the past two decades and it works acceptably in most cars and trucks.  But it’s murder on other internal combustion engines.  The small engine manufactures have been trying to keep up with the new fuels but your older engines are at high risk when you use the E10 fuel. E10 gasahol is bad enough but to make matters worse, now E15 is coming....

“Adding alcohol to a fuel dramatically alters its shelf life”, said Kris Kiser of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute. “That combined ethanol and water can corrode the fuel delivery system, predominantly the carburetor,” said Peter Sawchuk, of Consumer Reports. “It clogs it up the fuel system and it can’t start.”  Ethanol is an alcohol, and it absorbs water. When you let it sit, it will phase...

I hear a lot of you having problems starting your mower and a bad primer bulb is one of the major reasons why. Most of these primer bulbs were never designed to work with today’s fuels. In fact I have seen a few brands where the primer bulb is softening and falling apart. If you have a primer bulb that is bad, most repair shops, if they will work on it at all, will charge you $50 to $100 to replace.  The part is only around $10 so...