How To Remove Ethanol From E10 Unleaded Fuel To Use In Lawnmowers And Small Engines 

Octane booster REDUCES the flammability of the fuel, not the other way. It's purpose is to keep the fuel from igniting too soon, before the spark. There are quick start additives that increase flammability. Also, if that fuel had 10% ethanol, it should have shrunk by half a liter, but it only shrunk by a quarter liter, so I don't think you got it all; either that or it didn't really have 10%.

@@alan6832 hi Alan.. ta for the comment.. E10 has up to 10% it could of been less..

I am an ASE Master Certified Automobile Technician and I have been trained on how to measure ethanol in fuel and what it does to the fuel. In testing we use coolant, but you can use alcohol (with food coloring) and you will have something that will burn after you siphon it off. Calculate what the 10% will be and use that much alcohol to remove the ethanol from the fuel. It makes it easier to see when the process is finished. You are correct to use an octane booster because ethanol is an octane booster and when you remove it the octane rating of the petrol will drop possibly causing detonation. However you have that "flammability" thing backwards. One more thing. I doubt that it is the ethanol itself that is destroying the rubber o-rings and gaskets. As far as rust goes, you're spot on when the equipment is used once a week and has time to absorb moisture out of the air, and I suspect it is that water that is degrading paper gaskets and rusting pinholes in floats on carburetors. On stuff that is used daily, as you noted, or on a car that has a tank that is moisture controlled, the ethanol does not cause a rusting problem. Cars also have fuel filters that won't pass water so their injectors don't rust up.

@@ladamyre1 yo yo.you know what... Best comment ever.. thanks

e10 has a sell by date because like you pointed out mick..it absorbs moisture from the air..i see everyone panic buying petrol thinking to myself..this looks like they have too much petrol and need to get shut of it..so people will have a tank full they wont be using..rusty engines by christmas

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I mean it's just corn oil right?

could just burn it in a pan...

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just use aspen and there is no messing about

Just add Stabil to the fuel as soon as you get it. I have only ever had one fuel related problem and that was a generator that I decided to read the instructions on and drain the fuel after use. Next time I needed it I had to remove the carb and clean the varnish out for it to run . Ever since then I never shut the fuel off to the generator and it fires up on the second pull even after sitting for over 2 years. My riding mower is over 15 years old with no carburetor problems along with my push mower, weed eater and chainsaw.

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@@boilerhousegarage Yup, if folk don't wake up seen we are buggered

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Fantastic news

Yeah I guess you can

I once asked a specialist dehumidifier engineer if I could use the water for my fish tank. His reply - "OMG. No..! Its absolutely full of bacteria from the cooling pipes." So I don't know if the bacteria would affect the petrol? Probably the ethanol would kill it?

Thanks mate

Yes, I imagine @micksmowersthemowerman is aware of this but for the purposes of this video poured the bottle in this way so the camera could notice the label on the container.

I make an tiny air hole in the handle of the pouring container. 1mm is about right.

The jug used for the deionized water and other containers like it were designed to be poured with the spout on top, not on the bottom.

Never drink from the opposite side of your mug.... The laying on its side trick was taught me to pour fluids into or near engines where you don't want to spill, like with coolant, oil or windscreen fluid.

Lol hes available at £20 per second lol

Over £20 for a 5 litre can, but it is also free of benzine which is a carcinogenic component of petrol.

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my man taryl how are you doing buddy. cant wait for dinner on sunday.

Love a Sunday dinner

@@themowerman absolutely

No worries mark.. hope you enjoyed it

Glad I could help and you enjoy the videos mate

Good lad

The glugging comes from having to let air in to replace the contents coming out. I completely invert the container so the outlet is at the top, but sideways works, too.

@Jim McIntosh ethenol is basically just corn oil.

If you're In the UK, a lot of the "Super" brands are also Ethanol free. I use these in my motorcycle at the end of the riding season so I don't have ethanol fuels sitting in the carbs over winter.

At £20 for 5 litres I reckon using Aspen all the time is just as expensive as paying for a carburettor repair every couple of years. However, as compromise I'll do most of the job with ordinary petrol but then I empty the tank and finish it with about 100 ml of Aspen. That way the ethanol should be flushed out so it's not sitting in the carburettor causing damage between use.

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Yes I checked today and Esso super unleaded is ethanol free.

28/11/23 sorry boys not anymore!!😡😡😡@@patrickvennard838

Thanks mate

I started doing this and my machine stopped surging.

Yeah....Yamaha told me E5 fuel doesn't harm their motorcycles (bullshit). E5 made my tank porous until I had loads of tell-tale air bubbles in the paint finish all over the tank and the tank had slightly distorted too.....looked like someone with smallpox !!! So don't believe the manufacturers, they don't want any responsibility. Likewise the Government says Ethanol fuel is no problem too.....it's all a lie Ethanol is an extremely inefficient fuel you burn more of it to get power out, so your overall consumption increases and fuel economy drops....not very eco friendly then !! Just means you get sold a dodgy watered down fuel more expensively with extra servicing costs. We are being taken for a ride.....literally. Simply more profit for every one involved other than the end user.

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The CAS numbers will list everything in it, even if it lists them as "proprietary blends" or "hydrocarbon blends" or otherwise, the CAS number will say what the chemical is.

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Most small engines are designed and safe with upto 5% ethonal. Which means super unleaded is safe to use same as e5 95 Ron.

there trying to destroy the older car with this shite and more petrol vehicles so we.go electric in the end

Thanks Dennis

Thanks very much

Most of the "Gas" we are able to buy here in the US has no gasoline at all. It's the petroleum equivalent of Frankenstein's monster. Majority of our real gasoline is exported

@@jamesharrison6201 Hi, as you referred to 'gas' as petroleum, why don't you call it petrol as in the UK?

On a cross country trip I was surprised driving through Oklahoma that my car felt peppier, and I was getting 10% better gas mileage. Then realized it was real gas, not the 10%. They might as well put 10% water in, same result. 10% ethanol is one of the biggest modern scams. A political promise made to corn states that will be darn impossible to repeal.

Well said mate. I was looking to see if anyone would explain the octane rating. 👌

You can add an MMT additive which is in some boosters. It is derived from manganese metal and acts similar to how lead did back in the day, only downfall is manganese poisoning of the catalyst in cars and red deposit on spark plugs, similar to the yellow deposit from lead.

drain the tank. put a pint of chainsaw (gas/oil mix. I use regular 2 stroke oil at 16/1. ) fuel in it run it until it smokes. drain tank. start and run out of fuel. now all the carb, engine and exhaust parts have a protective film of oil on them. In spring put batt. back in, was on a trickle wasn,t it? add gas, ride the hell out of it!

Thanks for the comment.. I appreciate it

My barrel only cost £8 off the dreaded amazon and its clear. We needed it for our old Francis Barnetts

Ok mate thanks for the info.. great to have you aboard

Homebrewer here from Australia. The fermenters I've used come in black and also white. However, with the food colouring, that should be good enough to see through and use with the white fermenters. About 20 litres, yes. There's also larger ones at twice that and more. As for the tap being a bit large, use a gravity fed bottle filler (with a filter if you want) with a hand trigger or bottom of the bottle pin/valve. Add a length of clear hose and any reducers you think are needed, watch the colour change and shut off instantly. Or mix it with fuel spillage pump equipment for extra speed via the optimum mix of creativity.

I'd have to guess that fermenting equipment is not as cheap as, say, watercooler bottle with a cheap, plastic or better yet bronze|brass tap, at the bottom. Drink the watter AND then cheap source of bottles. Just don't store gasoline long term in them. Ok for a day or two tho, IME.

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@@themowerman I’ve been a subscriber for a while too. I enjoy your channel a lot. Best wishes to you and Riley. ~Keith~

@@chatrkat thanks mate I appreciate your support

@@thejupiter2 , Yes sir it does. That's proven science. Low octane fuel burns faster and causes octane ping in an engine. There's only 2 ways to solve it, 1st you can slow the burn rate by using higher octane fuel or 2nd you can adjust the timing and retard it to keep it from pinging The reason I add acetone to my fuel is to act as a solvent. It works well for that.

@@thejupiter2 , if you doubt what I have said, Google "does low octane fuel burn faster ". Let me know what you find.

@@thejupiter2 you only need higher octane fuel if high compression, and heat are causing predetonation (pinging)(knocking) as some call it. That's why some of the high compression engines run alcohol. Sam is right lower octane fuel detonates easier.

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Yeah I have seen that.. it's not something I would use.. but thanks for the comment mate

After you drain the gas tanks then you should start and run the engine until it burns up all of the remaining fuel in the carburetor. Then put the oil in your cylinders and store them for the winter.

@@roberts5118 Yes, I neglected to mention that. I run them until they stall out.

Ta for watching mate

Whenever I see ' ethanol free ' for sale, I am always curious about what was in the tank prior....

Thanks bud

The ethanol gauge in my car says the 93 octane I buy has 10% ethanol in it.

That’s fine for most classic cars but I don’t think high octane premium fuel is good for 2-stroke engines like your lawnmowers and strimmers.

Give it a go yourself with a gallon, and you will see the white sludge at the bottom. Even the 5% is shit for classic vehicles and totally pointless to have

@@farmerjohn6192 not really seeing as how ethanol can ruin gaskets and rubber parts in the fuel line of older cars, this is probably why the govt. has introduced it, they want to get old cars off the road

Thanks brother Im looking at doing some carb testing to see how it does over a year..

@@themowerman that'll be awesome brother

I was gonna ask the question as to why you should throw the coloured H2O away and could you not just re-use it to process another 5 litres of fuel, after all its purpose is merely to attract & separate the moisture from the fuel/ethanol mix and doesn't change its chemical elements? 🤷🏻‍♂️

They put it in because they are pushing the rubbish that is lower emotion which is just utter rubbish based on data from the US that proves it increases emissions as E10 produces less power so the car has to burn more to get the same level of power add to that the massive fields that need to now be used to farm the crops used in ethanol production and all the diesel burned inits production and transport not to mention the emissions produced to refine the ethanol. It is clear the environmental misinformation they are pushing is just a distraction and i think those that made the new law have huge shares in the ethanol production

@@EQINOX187 Good point. They make it easy for big business to mislead the public.

No worries

@@robertferguson5518 Tesco momentum 99 is less than 5% as is V-Power. After watching this I’ll stick to buying 99 or V-power, less faff and far less dangerous!

@@robertferguson5518 BP is the worst.

We have ethanol free 91 octane in Arkansas USA. Its usually in the premium pump and costs more. Right now its costs around 3.65 per gallon.

@@robertferguson5518 warning, if not CA CARB Certified, you WILL have a fire! BS alcohol destroys fuel lines and float valves!! Teflon needle valves, and US Coast Guard approved fuel hoses, a must! FACT

@@robertferguson5518 was $ 1.79 when TRUMP was in office.

does it send you blind?

We will soon be cheaper using vodka the way things are bloody going with all this crap just to appease the green nutters !

@@charlestaylor8566 A horse would probably be cheaper.

@@JohnBarringercopper101 No.

@@jimallen9859 Probably yes actually. Wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the "ethanol" recovered from the gas/petrol has methanol and other nasty volatiles in it. You would be a fool to try and process it into something drinkable. Especially since just making quality ethanol in the first place would be easier.

Thanks mate

Yes, the engine was still running fine but I sold the truck just because I wanted a newer model.

That's the difference between an engine in daily use as opposed to weekly or biweekly.

Sir or Madame I want to thank you for this! I don’t know if it will help my car but it will definitely save my mower.

Sea water is full of minerals that's why, ionised isnt

Yo yo my brother

Thanks mate

Thanks. Hmm I have no idea worth a go

No, it wouldn’t. Ethanol does not stick to lint gauze. It would just all run through and then separate out again.

I have many small engines, and every year I would have to take all the carburetors apart and clean them. What a pain in the rear. When I did this method 2 years ago, I pulled all my machines out and they all started right up and ran great. I also put fuel stabilizer in the mix.

What is acylate petrol

@@mrkoolio4475 I have no idea.

Bryan Keil well you said it in your original comment?

Hmm, if you say so... I don't see it though.

I would but what if you can't get it.. it's just an option to have. Ta for the comment

Here in the states at least, the higher octane fuels still contain ethanol - the point is to remove the ethanol.

@@slip0n0fall I think the point C Challinor was making was that the higher octane 97+ in the UK is still E5 which is what the standard (95) used to be until 1st when it changed to E10 so if there were no issues with using E5 then it would probably be more cost effective to just use the premium - deionised water varies in price in the UK plus the octane booster so losing 10% ethanol versus paying a few pennies more per litre for premium is probably marginal versus the effort in losing all the ethanol and then adding an expensive octane booster - it was the same hoo-haa when leaded was removed and those with classic cars were panicking about valve seat recession and the like - I ran a 1972 Triumph Spitfire on standard unleaded for a number of years without a problem! Whilst there are pros and cons to adding ethanol to fuel from a so-called environmental perspective (i.e. the fact that it probably uses more energy to make the ethanol than it generates or the fact that crops are being used instead of for food) this move to E10 just seems to be an excuse to get excited about change for no real reason - I will use E10 in my mower and see how it gets on, if it needs a fuel pipe and carb clean once in a while then so be it!

Same to you!