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I had a motorcycle mechanic tell me that the ethanol is causing alot of problems with the bikes & quads comming into his shop. While I was shopping at Wal-Mart in the outdoor power equipment I found a bottle of ethanol shield it was under 2.00 bucks and treats 10gals. of gas ( it's a fuel stabilizer, eliminates all ethanol problems for all gasoline engines protect & prevent repairs guaranteed to start) thats the statment on the bottle. When I had my fuel lines on my string trimmer to crack and become brittle I was told it was due to ethanol in the fuel since I've replaced the lines and used the ethanol shield I have had no more problems. Just wanted to let you all know about this stuff.

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I checked out the link thank you for adding it. I think this is worth posting about it can save quad owners some money on repairs.

I have been having a lot of problems with mine hesitating and bogging. It has been driving me freaking crazy and almost got me hurt a couple times. Nothing like bogging out when you are hitting the face of a jump, but anyway I checked and did everything I could on my quad and kept telling my wife it is air/fuel related, but I could not find a cause. I found this article and started to actually use dry gas, which helped, but didnt eliminate the problem. I will definitately be hitting up Wal mart before my next ride though.:yes:

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I have been having a lot of problems with mine hesitating and bogging. It has been driving me freaking crazy and almost got me hurt a couple times. Nothing like bogging out when you are hitting the face of a jump, but anyway I checked and did everything I could on my quad and kept telling my wife it is air/fuel related, but I could not find a cause. I found this article and started to actually use dry gas, which helped, but didnt eliminate the problem. I will definitately be hitting up Wal mart before my next ride though.:yes:

mine had that problem until I started to run a mix of race gas and 93 octane 50/50 sure made a difference on my 450R :biggrin:

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I run 93 no matter what but its still has 10% ethanol. Ethanol free gas isnt available on LI. Is ethanol shield like Sta-bil?

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Our 93 has the same :aargh:Thats why I mix it with 100 oct:yes: seems to really like it !!

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So im not one for reading directions but I just winterized my lawn equipment and added Ethanol-Shield to all of them. I used one bottle for three small machines. They didnt run very good with it in their tanks. Hopefully that was the E-S doing its job and getting rid of gunk and not me adding way too much LOL.

The first run out with E-S in my 400EX made for an interesting adventure. Was bogging down at WOT and gurgling. I did use one bottle for 1 tank of gas. Hey more is better right? I was riding around Bay Shore on the streets and thought Im gunna get caught and wont be able to outrun the cops. Ran that tank down and added fresh 93 with the proper mix of E-S and it runs like a champ again.

All that street driving and my tires are down to 4/32nds of tread left.

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