well here's a perdicament

[MrHunters]

gas prices are going up. fact
oil is almost at 100 bucks per. fact
ethanol is VERY bad for marine applications. fact
money don't grow on trees. havent found one yet anyway.

looking at the potential of 4-5 bucks a gallon should you fill up now for next season?

:edit:

this of course is assuming you agree with the thought process of emptying your tanks at the end of the year.

[zacs]

YES!

I have read so many threads on full tank vs. empty I could go crazy

I don't think anyone really knows the answer, but i can tell you that of all the threads I have read, everyone that stored full last winter had no problems.

So fill up now!

[Clammer]

just keep it running / its gonna be a expensive idle this winter

[Swimmer]

Stab-L fuel stabilizer works well.

[fish4striper]

My brand new yami fuel pump died. They said it was the ethanol and if I don't add statron with every fill up, they won't warranty another. I'm not sure whether to winter low or full.

[Rip Runner]

Fill it and add Startron & E-Zorb. Between the two you should be covered.

[keeperreaper]

I fill my boat add stabil and call it a year. That being said, I dont put the boat to sleep until December and wake her up in April. She doesn't sleep all that long but I haven't had any problems in the past.

[MrHunters]

Originally Posted by keeperreaper

I fill my boat add stabil and call it a year. That being said, I dont put the boat to sleep until December and wake her up in April. She doesn't sleep all that long but I haven't had any problems in the past.

thats about my schedule as well.

[Duke41]

I use StabL and have had my boat asleep for as much as 8 months no problem

[Mr. Sandman]

I just fill it. I don't add anything anymore. (except yami ring-free on each fill up which I find helps a lot) Yami dealer said stabl or any other non yami product in the fuel will just allow them to blame that on any malfunction and void any warranty service when ever they can. They have done this before he said...blame a 3rd party product and not pick up the tab... So don't add add anything except their product to be on the safe side. They even pulled my racor filter out and replaced it with a yami filter (which I think is not quite as good personally as you can't see what is in the bottom...no clear bottom, but they are both 10 micron filters) I end up changing the cartridge every 50 hours just so I don't have a worry about it and keep a spare on board.


As for full vs empty....I tried them both with and without additives. I prefer it full as I think there will be less condensation over the seasons and I like starting the year off without having to fill the damn thing up

Also I think if you are only storing it for a few months it really doesn't matter much, if you plan on storing fuel for 6+ months maybe it will help to use an additive. Why risk loosing the warranty over adding something that may or may not work. Also I STILL don't understand the theory behind the additives. If you look at the contents it s mostly alcohol. When there was no ethanol in gas I can see that adding some alcohol will absorb any water in the fuel but since the fuel now has 10% ethanol in it (which is basically alcohol) that will absorb water. I don't see what adding more alcohol to the fuel will do...except maybe give you a warm fuzzy feeling that you are doing something to the gas.

[macojoe]

I use stabil and never had a problem, I just put it away with what ever gas I have, if its full ok, if its 1/2 ok never a problem!!

$105.00 today for 34 gal of gas

[missing link]

I'm putting it to sleep tomorrow , I use star tron and e-zorb all year with a 1/4 tank of gas I'll put some X-TRA in the tank slosh it around , change oil & filters some pink stuff and then next year some new gas fire it up take it out for a ride then change plugs rotor and cap I've never had H2O in the gas filter doing this E-Zorb works I did a test with gas with phase seperation and added it and it worked just like they said it would -- from a cloudy mess to CLEAR no B SHT
ML SR