P500 What kind Of Gas do you run in your 500?

[100Acre]

Do you guys burn regular gas or do you use ethanol free. If you cannot find the Ethanol free can or will additives help? If you use regular gas predominantly, do you run it with a higher octane or just the 87 grades? Thank you!

 

[Admin]

 

[trigger]

Do you guys burn regular gas or do you use ethanol free. If you cannot find the Ethanol free can or will additives help? If you use regular gas predominantly, do you run it with a higher octane or just the 87 grades? Thank you!

Just regular 87, the premium is just wasting money. Burn Ethanol free if you can find it.

 

[100Acre]

Do additives help?

 

[trigger]

Do additives help?

I've never ran them in mine. The only time I add anything to fuel is if I get some wet gas, then I use Sea Foam.

 

[rocmar]

Wat ever comes out of
.....the gas pump

 

[SILVER_ALERT]

Do additives help?

Probably not necessary as long as you are using a good brand of gas. I personally run a tank of fuel system cleaner through all my vehicles, including the P500 every 6 months or so, just for preventative maintenance.

 

[JCart]

Premium in all our small engines. Honda technician told me here in Western Canada the methanol/ethanol will fall out of suspension and form a gel in bottom of tank that will suck up and plug fuel system. Told me this when I bought a 3000 watt Honda inverter and this can happen after 3 months of sitting. Premium is a better quality of fuel, I also use sea foam periodically in all our engine fuels for especially if I know they may sit unused of a while, like my Chainsaw. Also my 2 strokes run noticeably smoother with premium. Yamaha 15 hp outboard runs like a 4 stroke at idle with premium gas.... regular it will hardly idle.

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[Alan aka Davinci]

If you run at high altitudes you don't need high octane gas.

 

[100Acre]

Are you guys and ladies familiar with this website? It has listings across the country and Canada or state by state, city by town and the stations that sell ethanol free gas.
Ethanol-free gas stations in NC I just chose NC because its where I live.

 

[Moose308]

Do you guys burn regular gas or do you use ethanol free. If you cannot find the Ethanol free can or will additives help? If you use regular gas predominantly, do you run it with a higher octane or just the 87 grades? Thank you!

Do you guys burn regular gas or do you use ethanol free. If you cannot find the Ethanol free can or will additives help? If you use regular gas predominantly, do you run it with a higher octane or just the 87 grades? Thank you!

Premium runs cooler in small engines and I add startron additive because of the ethanol.

 

[Buford]

If you run at high altitudes you don't need high octane gas.

Around our area, the premium is the only grade without ethanol. As little fuel as these machines take, another 40 cents or so a gallon definitely won't break the bank.

 

[rocmar]

My 40+ yrs of riding...
I've always put in fuel
...from the pump...in
my rides...never have
I had a fuel...problem...
just...sayin

 

[Deleted member 3748]

For me, it depends on how long the gas will be sitting in the machine. Today's crap gas has about a one month shelf life before it starts to get gummy and clog up the tiny jets of small engines. If I know I'll be going through a tank of gas in under a month I run standard 87. If it's something like a generator, or chainsaw, that may sit for a long time with fuel, I use recreation fuel, just in case I forget to drain the fuel when I'm done using it. Also, towards the end of the mowing season, or snow blowing season, I get 5 gallons of recreation fuel, add Seafoam to it, then run that until it's time to put the equipment away. Then I know whatever fuel is left in the tank is good for several months.

 

[Buford]

My 40+ yrs of riding...
I've always put in fuel
...from the pump...in
my rides...never have
I had a fuel...problem...
just...sayin

Ethanol is still really bad stuff. It deteriorates any rubber products in the fuel system, also very hydrophilic, and we all know what moisture can do in a fuel system.

 

[Buford]

Hopefully the Trumpmeister can / will do away with ethanol

 

[Miss_Oak]

Are you guys and ladies familiar with this website? It has listings across the country and Canada or state by state, city by town and the stations that sell ethanol free gas.
Ethanol-free gas stations in NC I just chose NC because its where I live.

Good website. I didnt know about it. Thanks and congrats on your new p5!

 

[idcwby]

Ethanol free.
If I have to run ethanol gas, I'll put in an additive that is suppose to keep ethanol deposits from forming.

idcwby

 

[sam3006]

I've never put any gas in my 2015 500 except ethanol free, the only things I run ethanol containing gas in are my truck and the wife's car. Everything else, from the Pioneer 500 to my 200hp Evinrude outboard to chainsaws and lawn mowers, gets ethanol free and just in case the ethanol free ain't ethanol free, it all gets treated with Marine Stabil before it goes into anything.

 

[ehart814]

Per the owners manual, regular 87 gas. New machines such as the pioneer 500 are designed to handle ethanol blended fuel up to 10 or 15 percent.

Old carbeurated engines, yes I would use ethanol free, but it's just a waste of money for a pioneer 500.


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[KYhillbilly]

Regardless of grade if the gasoline will not be used in a month or two add Stabil or other antioxidant. Ethanol belongs in charred oak barrels for 8-12 years and not in our gas tanks. Ethanol has less BTU/gallon than gasoline so the more ethanol the less MPG you get.

Ethanol will dissolve rubber in older fuel systems and it will absorb water and lead to fuel system corrosion. However all fuel systems now are designed to handle ethanol.