I searched this product here and found a couple of references to it. One poster felt that it was "Snake Oil"
I tried it for the first time this week.
I inadvertently let some e5 gas get into my 12 year old John Deere riding lawnmower about 2 years ago. Our local Coop had just started added ethanol to their marked gas and I missed that fact.
The mower sat over winter with the e5 in the carb. The machine is a commercial grade so it has the long life Kawasaki Vtwin engine.
On start up in Spring I had an awful time with it. It has always started easily and run perfectly. After the e5 dose it would take many tries to crank up then splutter and cough. Eventually when warm and under load it would smooth out enough to do the job, but the engine was always hunting.
I looked at removing the carb for cleaning but it was a bit of a nasty thing to get off with all of the various linkages and hoses.
After putting new plugs in and many tanks of ethanol free fuel through it the starting and running did improve a bit. It was still hard to start and still ran a rough until under load.
This week I decided to have a go at fixing it, either with carb cleaning or with a new $500 carb if necessary.
Before doing that I decided to try some Seafoam fuel additive. The reviews for this product are almost universally glowing.
One reviewer explained " The way you do it is to run the engine until warm then let it sit overnight with the seafoam gas in it." The sitting overnight requirement is not mentioned in the Seafoam directions.
I did as the reviewer suggested and next morning the machine started instantly, just as it always had prior to sitting with the E5 in it. It also now runs perfectly smooth all through the rpm range.
What an easy fix and what a great product !
Glen
I tried it for the first time this week.
I inadvertently let some e5 gas get into my 12 year old John Deere riding lawnmower about 2 years ago. Our local Coop had just started added ethanol to their marked gas and I missed that fact.
The mower sat over winter with the e5 in the carb. The machine is a commercial grade so it has the long life Kawasaki Vtwin engine.
On start up in Spring I had an awful time with it. It has always started easily and run perfectly. After the e5 dose it would take many tries to crank up then splutter and cough. Eventually when warm and under load it would smooth out enough to do the job, but the engine was always hunting.
I looked at removing the carb for cleaning but it was a bit of a nasty thing to get off with all of the various linkages and hoses.
After putting new plugs in and many tanks of ethanol free fuel through it the starting and running did improve a bit. It was still hard to start and still ran a rough until under load.
This week I decided to have a go at fixing it, either with carb cleaning or with a new $500 carb if necessary.
Before doing that I decided to try some Seafoam fuel additive. The reviews for this product are almost universally glowing.
One reviewer explained " The way you do it is to run the engine until warm then let it sit overnight with the seafoam gas in it." The sitting overnight requirement is not mentioned in the Seafoam directions.
I did as the reviewer suggested and next morning the machine started instantly, just as it always had prior to sitting with the E5 in it. It also now runs perfectly smooth all through the rpm range.
What an easy fix and what a great product !
Glen
