I'm curious why everybody seems to like using 100LL in their mowers, whackers, ctc? Even if you don't use much, it's still 166% the cost of regular car gas, at least around here. Is it a shelf life thing?

i sell hundreds of honda gen's...ethanol is the only bad thing u can do to a honda. 100ll is great, unleaded premium w/no ethanol is also great...most of the honda's i sold in the early 80's are still running...but poor fuel is a problem for sure. if forced to run ethanol fuel, also add a bit of "stabil", seems to help immensely...fwiw...jo

ethanol is the only bad thing u can do to a honda

Jomac, Can you explain what the difference in E10 in Iowa and Idaho is? E10 works in Honda, Lawnboy, and many other small engines here in Iowa. I use E10 in a small Stihl chainsaw,believe it or not. We have quite a few antique tractor rides around here and some of those guys proudly display an ethanol sticker on the hood of an old John Deere. Must be when you think negatively, you get negative results.

Jomac, Just got done talking to my cousin to make sure I am telling you right. He has a 1983 Honda 500 water cooled motorcycle that uses E10. He also has an old Owatonna skid steer that he re-engined with a 25 hp Honda and it has racked up 300 hours on E10. The best thing he told me was that the Pioneer Seed soybean processing plant has a couple of conveyors that are powered by 25 hp Honda engines that are 6 or 7 years old with 2000 to 3000 hours on the meter----guess what, they run E10. You do know that we can still buy E0 here in Iowa.

sounds like your experiences are really good...we have found the opposite, as we believe the biggest problem with ethanol seems to be the shelf life...do you trust your life to the stuff in an airplane...one thing to put it in a lawnmower and etc...our turbo-charged sleds wont even climb off the trailer with the stuff, maybe ours is way worse or something...jo

180Marty wrote:..... You do know that we can still buy E0 here in Iowa.

Sounds like you Iowa guys are big believers in ethanol-blended gas. That's great! So why not send all your E-zero to us guys elsewhere who aren't?

Eric