If you’ve ever looked for the best way to add years of life to your lawn equipment, prevent marine engine corrosion or safely store your classic car, you’ve heard of the STA-BIL® Brand. For more than five decades, this household product has kept millions of gallons of fuel from going Read more…
While it sounds like a good idea, it could actually harm your engine and make it harder to hit the ground running when taking items out of storage Many contractors and homeowners alike have several pieces of outdoor power equipment sitting in storage. Some of the units are scrap, others Read more…
The STA-BIL Fuel Stabilizer® Shelf Life Defined If you have an unopened bottle of STA-BIL, it will be good for up to five years. Then once you open the bottle we recommend using within two years for best results. However, after the two years you may still use the product Read more…
If you’re hunting down non-ethanol gas stations, consider this first: ethanol fuel burns cleaner and more efficiently and helps increase octane. While the water-attracting alcohol in these blended fuels can lead to potential problems, they’re easy to prevent. All it takes is some basic knowledge about what’s going into your Read more…
Outdoor power equipment storage and maintenance often requires the use of fuel stabilizer products. Such products are designed to preserve the life of fuel, which can “go bad” in as little as 30 days when not in constant use. “Bad” or “stale” fuel results in varnish, gum, and corrosion occurring Read more…
Understanding the basic process of how gasoline degrades can help explain the shelf life of STA-BIL® Fuel Stabilizer. Gasoline is made up of various chemicals and when these components are exposed to oxygen, oxidation begins. Simply stated, oxidation is what occurs between oxygen and gasoline when they come into contact with one another. The resulting Read more…
The Ultimate Fuel Treatment Cheat Sheet If you’ve ever been confused or overwhelmed by the fuel treatment options available to optimize your engine’s durability and performance, fear not: you’re not alone. That’s why we’ve created this guide—to let you know just how fuel treatments can benefit your engine and what Read more…
If you’re interested in optimizing your engine performance through fuel additives, you’ve probably heard of octane boosters and fuel stabilizers. Both are designed to make your engine run better, longer — although, they achieve this through different means. In order to gain the maximum benefit from each, it’s important to Read more…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires that all fuel sold within the United States contains a certain level of deposit-control additives. These additives prevent the dangerous buildup of deposits within a fuel system. As gas prices climb, drivers often attempt to save money at the pump by purchasing the least-expensive Read more…
Most of the gasoline sold today in the United States contains ethanol, and the percentage is expected to increase over the next few years. Gasoline and ethanol are delivered to the gas stations separately and are blended together at gas stations during delivery. So what are the effects of ethanol Read more…