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• Ordered a Suzuki 2.5 today
  • Ethanol-free gas.
    • Only VP Racing near me
      • Whoof! $13/gallon? Worth a trip to the airport.
        • Tiny 4 stroke outboards are difficult!
          • I had phase seperation occur while using Startron
  • We run propane on our Yamaha generator.
    • I'd like to do that conversion
    • Here's an image of the natural gas conversion
  • My new little 3.5 HP Tohasu won't idle any more after one season...
    • Gene, we bought one of those new and it was trouble for us
    • Seafoam , Sea Foam, Sea Foam. Works very well in my 8 HP Yamaha
    • Wow....
      • Ours was a 2 stroke.
    • Adjust the idle screw
    • Well the Tohatsu 3.5 (which is also marketed by a bunch of people)...
      • Well a new sparkplug helped it start better... buuuut...
        • Check the tother things first
          • Checked the other stuff... all OK...
            • If you use the shut-off (I assume you have one); can't you leave it in neutral for 30 seconds or so?
              • Mine can take several minutes to run out
                • That's the same thing for my 3.5 HP
  • How to keep an outboard running
    • I would be delighted to run Ethanol free fuel- IF there was any within 100 miles of me for sale
      • Try small airports, Charlie
      • They sell TruFuel at Home Depot
        • LOL- Home Depot is an 80 mile round trip. Since I began using SeaFoam,in addition to
          • Hey- my grocery store is a 28 mile round trip