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Its that time of the year that I put BB up for the year and start fishin the maverick from now until april. I had the motor winterized last year and filled the tank up with gas. I added ethanol treatment and stabill. I spent over a grand this year gettin her runnin right again. Any suggestions on how to put her up short of draining the tank ?

Burn all the gas in your Four wheeler/ Mule over the winter. Or burn it all out and fill up over in Bainbridge at the BP on Shotwell/Broad street. They don't sell E-mixed gas.

As of this week, Costco still doesn't have any stickers showing ethanol in their gas... not to mention, good price for Tallahassee.

None of the BP stores should have Ethanol, at least within 150 miles or so of Bainbridge. Some of the stores have the sticker that will say, “May contain up to 10% or less Ethanol”. As of right now BP has no plans to bring E10 to our area.

THE BP IN CAIRO DOES NOT HAVE ETHANOL IN THEIR GAS.
PA THE OLD MAN

Its really not good for it to just sit....
Bring it to Tallahassee and I'm sure I can find time to run it!

BB,
The best recommendation is to remove all the fuel if possible. But if that is not possible then you need to use a good fuel stabilizer added to fresh, not old (nowadays anything over 3-4 weeks is old) fuel. Once you have the fuel properly stabilized then you need to run the engine dry and drain the carburater bowls or the vapor separator tank whether you have a carb or efi engine. Regarding stabilizers, I've used Stabil and Seafoam. But I've gotten the best results from PRI-G and PRI-D in all of my engines. I can honestly say that it has brought some old fuel back to life for me. Here's the link to the product:
http://www.priproducts.com/consumer_products.cfm

Good luck
Speedy

Thanks guys. Now question number two. If I drain all the fuel out(cant get to the tank so I assume I would have to use syphon pump method), theres certain to be a little in the bottom left. Since water is heavier wont all the water be in the bottom, leaving my tank with water in it so that when I refill, Ive still got water in my tank???

BB,
There's really not a 100% chance to get all the fuel and water out of it. The water that's left in there should be minimal and when you refill with gas it will ALL go through the fuel/water separator anyway. You do have a 10 micron fuel/water separator with a clear bowl on the bottom, correct? So, when you drain the fuel from your boat just disconnect the fuel line from your engine. You may have to add a piece of fuel line to it to make it longer to reach a can on the ground. Tilt the front of boat slightly up with the trailer so that the rear of the tank drains as much as possible. Fuel pick-ups are normally at the rear of the fuel tank. Squeeze the primer bulb and the fuel will siphon to your container on the ground. Obviously, depending on how many gallons you have, keep an eye on it and have extra fuel cans so that you don't overflow onto the ground. If you find a lot of water in your tank you may want to remove a deck plate that covers your fuel sending unit. Remove the sending unit and siphon out any excess water. That's what I would recommend.

Regards
Speedy

Siphon the gas out, plug the tank vent, fill the tank with nitrogen and then no problems.

BB, DO NOT LEAVE YOUR TANK EMPTY!!!!!!!!!! The worst ethanol problems we've seen is the ethanol cleans all the aluminum oxide, the white-shiny stuff you see on bare aluminum, and feeds it all to you engine. If your tank is full of gas the aluminum can't oxidize. Fill it with ethanol free gas and put stabilizer in it. If you are real nervous, get you fuel polished nest spring before you start using your engine. Ask a Merc expert about how to winterize your engine.