Got a hold of some bad gas a couple days ago...
I meant to get gas at my normal 100% place on the way home from work, but just forgot, so I stopped at the nearest alternative and put the E10 91 octane stuff in (it's for a ZX-11, that I've had for nearly 3 years now). I almost always get 100%, but have used the other stuff a time or two without apparent issue.
I went over over a dozen miles on it without noticing anything, then on the way home the next day, I was fiddling with the fuel selector and put it on Reserve. I sort of had the different gas in mind and thought if there was anything odd toward the bottom I'd go ahead and pull it on through. That's my habit after I get gas - leave it on Reserve for the rest of the way home to see how it acts.
Anyway, it started losing power on the busy interstate shortly after that, and I had to pull off on the inside shoulder. Going back to the normal On position didn't fix it. It didn't die while I was sitting there, but it didn't want to rev very high. I said a prayer or two for help to get home, and was able to get it to rev normally shortly after that. It went 10 miles or so without anything noticeable, and I got home, thankfully.
It seemed like fuel starvation, and I was suspecting the fuel selector since I'd just messed with it, or maybe the fuel pump, but the different gas was an awfully suspicious coincidence. This morning I tried it again, and didn't get out of the neighborhood before it started acting up again. Before I left the house, I could hear the fuel pump clicking if I left the selector Off, so it didn't seem to be that.
This evening I started draining the gas (from Reserve) in prep for changing the selector (I've got an old one that probably still works), and the gas was milky looking... I had drained some off before I captured that sample in the glass. It's got 3 distinct layers there, two close to the bottom. The thing that was most obvious when I first drained it was the sugary looking layer above the clear stuff at the very bottom. It sort of changed to just 2 main layers after it sat, but the one on the bottom doesn't look like water really, and the stuff above is still cloudy.
I got the rest of the tank drained, and put a couple of gallons of 100% 91 octane in there and ran it for 10min in the garage, but Idk if that's going to be enough to fix it or not. I certainly hope so. I'll find out tomorrow, probably.
I meant to get gas at my normal 100% place on the way home from work, but just forgot, so I stopped at the nearest alternative and put the E10 91 octane stuff in (it's for a ZX-11, that I've had for nearly 3 years now). I almost always get 100%, but have used the other stuff a time or two without apparent issue.
I went over over a dozen miles on it without noticing anything, then on the way home the next day, I was fiddling with the fuel selector and put it on Reserve. I sort of had the different gas in mind and thought if there was anything odd toward the bottom I'd go ahead and pull it on through. That's my habit after I get gas - leave it on Reserve for the rest of the way home to see how it acts.
Anyway, it started losing power on the busy interstate shortly after that, and I had to pull off on the inside shoulder. Going back to the normal On position didn't fix it. It didn't die while I was sitting there, but it didn't want to rev very high. I said a prayer or two for help to get home, and was able to get it to rev normally shortly after that. It went 10 miles or so without anything noticeable, and I got home, thankfully.
It seemed like fuel starvation, and I was suspecting the fuel selector since I'd just messed with it, or maybe the fuel pump, but the different gas was an awfully suspicious coincidence. This morning I tried it again, and didn't get out of the neighborhood before it started acting up again. Before I left the house, I could hear the fuel pump clicking if I left the selector Off, so it didn't seem to be that.
This evening I started draining the gas (from Reserve) in prep for changing the selector (I've got an old one that probably still works), and the gas was milky looking... I had drained some off before I captured that sample in the glass. It's got 3 distinct layers there, two close to the bottom. The thing that was most obvious when I first drained it was the sugary looking layer above the clear stuff at the very bottom. It sort of changed to just 2 main layers after it sat, but the one on the bottom doesn't look like water really, and the stuff above is still cloudy.
I got the rest of the tank drained, and put a couple of gallons of 100% 91 octane in there and ran it for 10min in the garage, but Idk if that's going to be enough to fix it or not. I certainly hope so. I'll find out tomorrow, probably.
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